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Future Generation appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
Future Generation has appointed its first chief investment officer from Perpetual. The philanthropic investment group has appointed former Perpetual head of private wealth Lee Hopperton. Hopperton will advise Future Generation's Investment Committees ...

CSC sells down data centre holdings to Future Fund, Infratil

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
The Future Fund and Infratil will up their stakes in a local data centre services provider as the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) sheds some of its holdings. CSC has agreed to offload 12.04% of the ordinary shares it holds in Canberra ...

HMC Capital boosts AUM by 45% to $19bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
HMC Capital's slew of acquisitions skyrocketed assets under management (AUM) by 45% in the half year to December to $18.5 billion. At the rate it is going, the alternatives fund manager expects to double AUM to $50 billion over the next three to ...

Oaktree offers Star $650m lifeline

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
Oaktree Capital has offered Star Entertainment a debt financing proposal to provide $650 million in two debt facilities with a term of five years. The proposal is subject to numerus conditions, including a comprehensive security package and intercreditor ...

Platforms placate fee consent ordeal: SuitabilityHub

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Platforms have vastly improved their bulk processing capabilities, particularly as financial advisers come to dread the new fee consent renewal process, SuitabilityHub managing director Recep Peker says. This is one of the main findings in SuitabilityHub's ...

Economist calls for 35bps rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to deliver its first interest rate cut since November 2020 when the board meets tomorrow. However, while most of the market is expecting a regular 0.25% cut, Betashares chief economist David Bassanese ...

Australian Bond Exchange grows footprint with global partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Australian Bond Exchange (ABE) will partner with ViewTrade Australia to take its over-the-counter (OTC) offerings global. ViewTrade Australia is a subsidiary of ViewTrade Holding Corp, which provides brokerage, technology and financial solutions to ...

AMP profit dives as advice business sale bites

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
AMP's statutory net profit after tax (NPAT) slumped to $150 million in the 2024 financial year, nearly half the previous year's result, which the firm attributed to simplification spend and the sale of its advice business. The prior year's ...

Shift needed in retirement income advice: Allianz Retire+

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
A new report suggests that the adoption of retirement income philosophies and a new approach to risk profiling would see financial advisers better assist their clients in the retirement phase. Allianz Retire+'s Towards A Retirement Income Philosophy ...

Brookfield subsidiary launches credit fund locally

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
A Brookfield Asset Management subsidiary has launched the Oaktree Strategic Credit Fund (AUD) to Australian wholesale investors and appointed responsible entity (RE) duties to Channel Investment Management. Brookfield Oaktree Wealth Solutions' fund ...