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Zenith reaffirms Metrics ratings amid doubts
Zenith Investment Partners has reaffirmed all ratings for Metrics Credit Partners' funds following the recent downgrades by another research house.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Bennelong adds private credit firm
Bennelong Funds Management has partnered with US lender Monroe Capital, bringing a new private credit opportunity for Australian investors.
1 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Partners Group debuts new fund
Partners Group has launched an evergreen fund giving Australian and New Zealand wholesale investors access to its royalties strategy.
1 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Signals over slogans
In today's regulatory climate, institutional investors face an intensifying challenge: deliver competitive returns while ensuring that sustainability claims are accurate, consistent, and defensible.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Coalition's super for housing policy 'unlikely to continue'
Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg01 has confirmed the Coalition's controversial super for housing policy is under review.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Macquarie AM wins sovereign wealth fund mandate
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will set up shop in Saudi Arabia after being tapped by sovereign wealth fund PIF for joint venture investments in infrastructure and energy transition sectors.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Unearthed in the bins
Early 2025 saw Microsoft announce its Majorana quantum chip that required developing a new hybrid material with researchers from the University of Sydney, with the hope that it enables quantum computers to be viable in years rather than decades.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Ben Samild to leave Future Fund
Future Fund chief investment officer Ben Samild is leaving the sovereign wealth fund for a new role.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
CBA class action appeals dismissed
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has defeated the appeals from the Zonia and Baron shareholder class actions in the Federal Court.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Private credit play
If you measure the success of a managed product by funds flow, six of the top 10 credit funds are private credit with total net flows of more than $5 billion in the past 12 months.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
For shame
In recent weeks, I've received several invitations from strangers to join Facebook groups.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Schroder urges 'open dialogue' with government
AustralianSuper chief executive Paul Schroder has warned that while superannuation funds may have the capital to invest in future infrastructure projects, the government should bear the risks.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Federal Court slaps Mawhinney with 15-year ban
Mayfair 101 Group director James Mawhinney has been banned from receiving or soliciting funds related to financial products for 15 years after the Federal Court determined he had a \"cavalier attitude to compliance\" and was \"reckless\" in operating his business.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Brighter Super CIO to step down
Brighter Super's chief investment officer has decided to semi-retire and will step down from the post on December 5.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Allow couples tax-free super splitting: Hume
A bill that would allow couples to split their collective superannuation balances evenly between them to improve the gender super gap was tabled in Parliament.
2 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
ASIC takes aim at super, private markets
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant says that three years into the Retirement Income Covenant, things are \"not where we'd hoped to be\".
1 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
AMP settles class action
AMP has settled a class action brought against N.M. Superannuation, AMP Superannuation and AMP Services, agreeing to pay $120 million.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
ANZ fined $240m for bond trading, retail misconduct
ANZ has copped a whopping $240 million fine for bank-wide \"unconscionable conduct\" that includes admitting it was guilty of misleading the government over the $14 billion bond scandal.
4 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
CSLR a 'shared responsibility'
Responding to the Treasury consultation on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR), the SMSF Association (SMSFA) agrees the most efficient and equitable way to fund the special levy is to spread it across all Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) sub-sectors.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
ASIC to appeal Block Earner again
ASIC is persevering in its crusade against Block Earner with the Federal Court granting a special leave to appeal an April decision that found that an AFSL was not necessary to offer a fixed-yield digital asset-related product.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Equity Trustees defies ASIC Shield allegations
Equity Trustees (EQT) vows to defend itself against ASIC's lawsuit alleging it failed superannuation trustee duties over the collapse of the Shield Master Fund, as details emerge of how one of its analysts red flagged the product but was allegedly ignored.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
RBA 'alert' to impact of tech
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock has said the future of central banking will be shaped by how the RBA chooses to engage with new technologies in a meaningful way.
1 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
GROWTH PATH
While at a career crossroads, Alex Zaika didn't know what the future held - he just knew he wanted to be in a suit. Now, he is the chief executive of Global X and pushing a strong growth strategy. Eliza Bavin writes.
5 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
The managed accounts mirage: Who exactly are they serving?
Big money is flowing into managed accounts and it's time we start asking questions
4 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Rest invests $390m in US REIT
Rest has made a $390 million (US$250m) contribution as part of a co-investment with funds managed by Blue Owl Capital into US-based real estate investment trust STORE Capital.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
InterPrac wants super funds’ reserves to remediate victims
InterPrac Financial Planning wants to rid itself of remediation obligations regarding the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, saying that victims should be “fully compensated” via superannuation funds’ reserves.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Cbus vows faster death benefit payouts
After being caned by ASIC for making beneficiaries wait for more than 90 days to receive a death benefit, Cbus is vowing to pay them faster.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Family offices up equities, dial down alternatives: Goldman Sachs
New research from Goldman Sachs shows that family offices have upped investments in equities at the expense of alternatives.
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September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Super funds break records
As superannuation fund assets continue to hit record highs, with AustralianSuper leading the pack at $387.6 billion, the number of inactive accounts is also ballooning, APRA's latest statistics reveal.
1 min |
September 22, 2025
Financial Standard
GSFM becomes exclusive distributor for Auscap
GSFM has become the exclusive distributor of Auscap Asset Management's two Australian equities funds in Australia and New Zealand.
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