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Equity Trustees welcomes new chief financial officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... months that assessed a strong field of candidates. Platt has more than 25 years of experience working in, and leading, finance teams. She is currently the interim chief financial officer at ISPT and responsible for the finance, procurement, insurance ...

Qantas Super taps fintech as an investment consultant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
Qantas Super has partnered with Ortec Finance, a fintech company headquartered in Rotterdam, as an investment performance consultant. The $8.9 billion corporate super fund will use Ortec's investment performance managed service via an outsourcing arrangement ...

Heartland finally gets regulatory approval for Challenger Bank acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... in its expansion strategy for Australia. As at 31 December 2023, Heartland's Australian reverse mortgage and livestock finance businesses had around NZ$2 billion of gross finance receivables. "Completing the Challenger Bank acquisition will make Heartland ...

Court delays DASS class action settlement approval

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... leave the company on June 30. Hill began working at E&P on 2015 as group financial controller and before that worked in finance and accounting roles at KPMG Australia and Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe. He will be replaced by Robert Darwell, who is ...

A quarter of advised Australians nervous about retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
Physical health and financial security are the primary factors influencing how content Australians in or near retirement are, according to a new report. Challenger's inaugural Retirement Happiness Index, in collaboration with independent research house ...

ASIC wins greenwashing case against Vanguard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... including in 12 product disclosure statements, a media release about the fund's launch, statements on its website, a Finance News Network interview featuring then-product research and development manager Rachel White on YouTube, and during a presentation ...

New SMSF solution for Islamic Australians launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... steadily increasing value. However, borrowing money to buy property and paying interest was forbidden (riba) under Islamic finance (Sharia) principles. With the Islamic SMSF structure, Meezan Finance provides funding which followed Islamic Musharaka ...

Australia's wealthiest women not getting the advice they need

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
The number of high-net-worth (HNW) women seeking increased engagement with financial services is growing in Australia, according to new research. JBWere and CoreData research found Australian woman are more highly educated, entrepreneurial and participating ...

Perpetual seeds Kapstream fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024
... Perpetual Private research analyst Eddie Lee said: "We continue to find private debt appealing especially domestic warehouse finance which exhibits good levels of yield with shorter-dated maturities."

Markets, economies benefit from eustress: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... recently, the opposite has eventuated - borrowers now have to think long and hard about the opportunity cost of their finance. "We have ourselves a period of interest rate eustress," Paton said.