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Longer lives challenge Australia's retirement model

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2026
... living into their nineties will need to draw on their retirement savings for longer. The research also highlights the growing scale of Australia's aging population, with about 300,000 Australians turning 65 this year, rising to an estimated 375,000 ...

ASIC forms markets expert advisory group

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2026
... strategic risk environment of market and credit risk uncertainty, growing cyber, AI and real economy risks and industrial-scale disruption and globalisation of traditional investment and capital markets operations and practices," Constant said. "A renewed ...

Entireti launches consulting program for AFSLs

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2026
... said. "It has also helped us work towards a more consistent way of operating across the entire firm. "We are not yet at the scale where we can build all of our ideal bench strength internally, but Entireti Alliances brings many of those capabilities ...

FEATURE | Agriculture | Beneath the soil

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2026
... cattle producer, an almond orchard or a company supplying fertiliser and seeds. Even within the same industry, location, scale, water access and operating costs can determine whether a strong commodity price translates into a stronger balance sheet. ...

Private credit under fire again, widespread failings persist

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2026
... the risks associated with private credit investing are no longer isolated to institutional and rich investors. Given the scale private credit has reached, ASIC is worried the harm to retail investors and superannuation funds has the potential to "damage ...

Perpetual awards OTC reporting mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2026
... operational controls, consolidation of fragmented processes and keeps evidence of oversight to allow businesses to continuously scale their operations and has been appointed by Perpetual. As trustee and RE, Perpetual Corporate Trust must ensure OTC derivative ...

ASIC issues serious and final warning on lead generation

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2026
... superannuation or investments. "The poor approach to oversight taken by some licensees is unacceptable, particularly considering the scale and volume of business generated from these arrangements," Kirkland said. He said licensees must ensure only authorised ...

AI moves beyond pilot phase for Aussie businesses: Deloitte

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2026
... next 12 months. They also reported increased revenue gains from AI, rising from 20% in January to currently 27%. "Amid this scale of investment, the total bill has become the most closely watched measure of AI economics: 71% of companies track total ...

Instos lower active risk to 'eke out more alpha': Acadian

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2026
... are cleaning the data, the significant investment and expertise in AI, purely because we're a large global quant investor. Scale matters in systematic investing," she said. "We've been using machine learning, natural language processing and those types ...

AustralianSuper scores Moody's top credit rating

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2026
... outlook to the rating. The AAA rating by Moody's is the highest-quality long-term credit rating on the agency's global scale, representing the lowest level of credit risk. AustralianSuper chief executive Paul Schroder said: "AustralianSuper is ...
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