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BlackRock to develop super battery

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
BlackRock's Akaysha Energy has been selected by the NSW government to build one of the largest committed utility scale batteries in the world. The Waratah Super Battery is understood to be the largest committed battery project in the southern hemisphere ...

QAR could see 12% increase in insured Aussies

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
According to research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC), the introduction of a scalable advice model for life insurance would see more than a million Australians have the life insurance cover they need. Research by NMG Consulting ...

Challenger offloads banking business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... Livestock Finance businesses will be transferred to sit under the Challenger Bank. Greenslade added that the plan is to scale the bank's digital banking platforms to broaden the reach of its existing offerings.

Magellan targets $100bn in five years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... George said. "Through growth of our existing strategies and new products, I believe we will be a fund manager of global scale once more with over $100 billion in funds under management after five years. This will not be growth for the sake of growth. ...

Australian Ethical FUM dips ahead of merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
... added to Australian Ethical's super FUM and more than 30,000 members join. "Following the successor fund transfer, increased scale will allow Australian Ethical to pass on superannuation fee reductions to all members and improve competitiveness of our ...

Brookfield Special Investments invests down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
... globally but first in Australia, following its launch in 2020. BSI is a tailored program within Brookfield that provides large-scale, non-control capital investments (debt, hybrid or minority equity) to leading companies globally. Brookfield Private ...

CEFC, Grok Ventures back solar tech firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022
... Australia and around the world," Virescent Ventures managing partner Ben Gust said. The CEFC has committed $1.5 billion to large scale solar projects with a generating capacity of 2.1 GW, as well as supporting solar PV technology like Sunman's innovative ...

Australian retirement system given B+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... on adequacy (85.8) and sustainability (83.8), while Finland had the best integrity score (93.3). At the other end of the scale, India scored the lowest for adequacy (37.6), the Philippines for integrity (30.0) and Austria for sustainability (22.7).

Worst performing super funds named

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... reflect the falls in the listed markets as of June 30." The second major trend coming out of the report for this year is that scale does not necessarily lead to better outcomes for members. "We found no evidence that larger funds outperform smaller funds. ...

Global X drops management fees

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... and most liquid of any type of financial instrument, with more than US$23 trillion of outstanding Treasuries. "Despite the scale of this market, Australian retail investors had no access to a pure play investment in US Treasuries until the Global X ETF ...