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FEATURE | Nature risk | Paved paradise

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2026
... landscape, we see a slip from an amazing mountain ash forest to essentially an acacia-dominated woodland that cannot store anything like the carbon that tends to burn really fast. This is a dramatic ecosystem change." Australia also takes the crown as ...

FEATURE | Digital advice | Interlocking the pieces

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2026
... matter, and the technology has to understand and operate within those boundaries," Hoang says. He also highlights that anything involving AI will need to be communicated and analysed across all personnel in a super fund, including the trustee and C-suite ...

Insurer sanctioned for over 10k breaches

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
... customers. "Customers rely on these notices to understand what their policy covers, what they are paying and whether anything has changed," McClelland said. "When that information is wrong, incomplete or arrives late, customers can be left uncertain ...

FEATURE | Group insurance | Dusk to dawn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... "first thing that goes is happiness," Solomon says, marking this as the "cardinal symptom." "You cannot gain pleasure from anything," he explains. Soon, other emotions follow happiness into oblivion: sadness, sense of humour, and one's belief in ...

Special Feature: Beyond safekeeping

BRENDAN SWIFT  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2026
... portfolios are expanding into illiquid private markets, and the data demands they place on custodians now stretch far beyond anything a traditional mandate envisaged. When Aware Super's head of investment services Michael Nairn describes what his ...

Vanguard's oldest ETF eclipses to US$1tn in value

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2026
... oldest index-tracking mutual fund available to retail investors. "Crossing the US$1 trillion barrier is more symbolic than anything. ETFs do not win prizes for growing to a particular size. Though Vanguard, and its funds that own the firm, will earn ...

FEATURE | Emerging markets: Twists and turns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... incentives of the different players in this conflict - Israel, the US and Iran - there is no way you would have concluded anything but that there will be an attack," he says. "The incentive structure, the agendas of the different players, was always ...

Feature: Private credit | The fine print

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... had a credit recession in a long time, and it seems that some people assume it will never happen," he says. He notes if anything ever goes wrong, one should assume retail investors, even though they were told about some of the risks, will seek remedy ...

Data, compliance key to successful technology-enabled advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... (AI), experts urge not to overlook two key areas before they go all in: data quality and compliance. Before considering anything else, a panel of technology and advice experts stressed the importance of starting at the ground level - improving client ...

Investors thrust into rules of the 'jungle': Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... increasingly encroaching on traditional market cycles, forcing investors to make sense of these "jungle times" where anything goes, according to an economist. Diana Mousina, deputy chief economist at AMP, said the current economic cycle is unlike any ...
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