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Mall owners count cost as David Jones enters administration

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2026
Shopping centre owners Scentre Group and Vicinity Centres have almost $80 million a year in rent at stake after Australia's iconic David Jones went into voluntary administration following 188 years of trading. David Jones occupies space at 17 Westfield ...

IFM Investors appoints global product strategy head

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2026
IFM Investors has strengthened its global leadership team with a senior appointment of a former WTW consultant. The appointment is aimed at sharpening its investment offering and responding its investment offering and responding to changing institutional ...

Audit quality continues to fall short: ASIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2026
The corporate regulator has called for improvements in audit quality and financial reporting after its latest surveillance found companies, including superannuation funds, are still not getting the fundamentals right. Report 842 ASIC's oversight of ...

Super funds lend voice to tokenisation

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2026
AustralianSuper, Aware Super and Australian Retirement Trust are among the superannuation funds joining a new advisory group established by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance CRC (DFCRC) to help shape the development of tokenisation ...

Challenger open to TAL takeover at a better price

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2026
... Challenger's largest shareholder and an important commercial partner, and we value that relationship," Challenger chair Duncan West said. "Accordingly, the board finds it appropriate to engage with TAL Daiichi Life to determine whether a proposal can ...

Vale Mark Johnson

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2026
Mark Johnson, a founding leader of Macquarie Group, has passed away. Johnson joined Macquarie's predecessor Hill Samuel Australia in 1971, which at the time provided merchant banking and corporate advisory services to the mining and industrial sectors. ...

Former super ombudsman joins HESTA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2026
HESTA beefs up its member engagement expertise after appointing a former AFCA ombudsman as an external adviser to the fund. Heather Gray joins the fund's Member Service Committee, bringing her six years experience as lead ombudsman, superannuation at ...

Acenda Life launches investment bond

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2026
Acenda Life has launched an Investment Growth Bond and enhanced its Fixed Term Annuity, broadening its investment offering. The new investment bond is designed for long-term wealth accumulation and transfer, with potential applications including education ...

Regulating for culture

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2026
Sometimes, the questions not asked can matter more than the answer. At the parliamentary inquiry into KPMG in August, Macquarie chair Glenn Stevens was asked whether he had ever questioned his audit committee chair about her contact with the firm during ...

AustralianSuper picks up co-investors' stakes in Perth Airport

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2026
AustralianSuper has increased its investment in Perth Airport, snapping up two co-investors' stakes in the asset, now holding around 29.4% of interest. The super fund completed the acquisition of the combined 9.14% interest in Perth Airport from Australian ...
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