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Super moves: Qantas Super, VFMC, AusSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... reporting. In her new role, Gaskin will lead the asset management division's contribution to the newly legislated climate risk assessment and reporting per the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards. The new standards came into effect in January ...

HESTA hunts for portfolio construction and risk specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
HESTA's general manager of portfolio construction and risk has exited the $93 billion super fund, underscoring the high number of senior turnovers in big super. The superannuation fund confirmed that Michael Sommers had exited and that it was looking ...

Global active equity managers suffer their worst year in decades

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... also found that quantitative managers stood out as a rare bright spot, benefiting from diversified portfolios and effective risk controls. In the Australian market, the strong performance of the big four banks similarly created challenges for active ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... support one another, and both are critical to our economy, so it's important we approach this from both an opportunity and risk perspective. The critical point for ASIC is whether there is a need for interventions to address risk or adjustment to ...

Selfwealth to proceed with Svava proposal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
After much back and forth between bidders, Selfwealth has forged ahead with a deal with the highest bidder. Despite a recent call for its shareholders to consider Bell Financial Group's (BFG) previous offer, Selfwealth has ultimately decided to proceed ...

TAL taps ex-CBA deputy as chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... Cohen was CBA's group general counsel, group executive of human resources, group executive of corporate affairs, and chief risk officer. Before joining CBA, he was general counsel at AMP and a partner at law firm Allans. "I'm delighted to be joining ...

Technology optimises family office performance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
With the drastic rise in the number of family offices setting up shop in Australia in recent years, their reliance on technology to optimise operations and performance has also become evident, new research from KPMG found. The 2025 Australian Family ...

Acenda names inaugural chair

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... Australians and New Zealanders, now and into the future," Shimizu said. The news follows the recent announcement of a new chief risk officer earlier this month, and a couple of c-suite appointments in September last year.

Solutions to avoid concentration risk: Scientific Beta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... institutional investors, as index solutions provider Scientific Beta touts two possible approaches to better manage concentration risk. According to new research, spearheaded by Australian head of investment solutions Warwick Schneller and deputy chief ...

ASIC clearing and settlements powers to curb ASX monopoly

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
In a bid to curb monopolistic practices, ASIC's new powers that mandate the ASX to be more transparent on its fees and services relating to clearing and settlements (CS) will kick in three months from now. Under the ASIC CS Services Rules 2025 ...