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WT Financial takes majority stake in TNT Advisor

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
... paraplanning industry have been engaged in a race to the bottom on price, often accompanied by declining quality and increasing reliance on offshore document production," Cullen said. "Emerging technologies are turning that model on its head and creating ...

ASIC, APRA urge finance sector to demonstrate AI threat response

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... is needed to shore up resilience across our highly interconnected financial system." The regulators also warned shared reliance on cloud, software, telecommunications, payments infrastructure and AI providers could amplify disruptions across the sector ...

Macquarie board rejects KPMG as auditor

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2026
... This comes after Macquarie chair Glenn Stevens was grilled at the August 14 parliamentary hearing over the bank's reliance on Allens, KPMG's own lawyers, to review the embattled auditor's conduct. The investment giant was formally inquiring ...

New investment governance provider for AFSL launches

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2026
... research houses model contains a huge loophole around conflicts of interest and highlighted there's been an "over reliance" on rating reports provided by them. "We are going to try to change that dynamic," he said. "In the institutional world it ...

ASFA defends super as 'policy success' amid Bragg criticism

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2026
... Mary Delahuntry said the objective evidence shows super has strengthened Australians' retirement incomes while reducing reliance on the Age Pension. "Super has meant that even as our population ages, the government's Age Pension bill is going down instead ...

Retirement portfolios need a new playbook: Real Asset Management

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2026
... portfolios should incorporate alternative income-generating assets capable of delivering more stable returns while reducing reliance on listed market performance. Private credit, he said, has merged as an increasingly important component of modern retirement ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up direct private investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2026
... five years. "SWFs have been transitioning from indirect to direct investing over the past 10-15 years, lessening their reliance on general partners (GPs) as they develop their own portfolio management and value-creation capabilities," the report read. ...

Lack of awareness impacts retirement satisfaction: TAL

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2026
... capital access for active years, while lifetime income streams support spending confidence and can reduce Age Pension reliance. "Without certainty about future income, even retirees with adequate savings may default to conservative spending. Product ...

What does a world with 'zero migration' look like?

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... share of each country's migrant inflows. "Output per capita falls by around 12% by 2060 in Spain, reflecting heavy reliance on working-age migrants, while there is a more modest decline of around 1% in the US as its inflows are more mixed in age ...

Product Showcase: Calm in the chaos

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
... by four investment pillars. First, Fairbrother says they only buy stock on cheap valuations because that reduces their reliance on uncertain forecasts. Second, they stick with a bottom-up, not macro-driven, approach, which reduces their vulnerability ...
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