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One in five pension funds face liquidity risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... have enough liquidity to withstand adverse scenarios. Last month, APRA slammed superannuation funds for their lax liquidity risk management. Eight unnamed super funds out of 23 that APRA analysed needed major improvements. Super funds tend to use just ...

Economist's wishlist: Lower tariffs, bond yields settling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... in bond yields has probably gone too far, given our view that core inflation has further room to decline and because the risk to growth is to the downside. Higher bond yields threaten the outlook for equities from a valuation point of view. "We expect ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... markets, according to IFM Investors' Private Markets Macro Outlook. IFM Investors chief economist Alex Joiner added political risk will be considered equally important, particularly as the world assesses the impact of the incoming administration's corporate ...

SEC fines private equity firms for recordkeeping failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... failures to timely file suspicious activity reports between January 2020 and March 2022. It failed to protect customers from the risk of identity theft between April 2019 to July 2022 and also used off-channel communications that breached recordkeeping ...

Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
An alliance of financiers with over US$57.5 trillion in assets has bowed to US political pressure and hit pause after the exit of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock. Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), which has over 300 members, announced it ...

CFS delivers 16.6% returns for growth members

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... from Australian shares. "We believe that inflation data will continue to be volatile in 2025 so diversification and active risk management will be critical components of portfolio construction in the year ahead." CFS Superannuation chief executive Kelly ...

WA financial planning firm acquired by US insurance broker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... forward. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. WMP is a financial planning firm specialising in retirement plan risk management for individuals and corporate clients, and the acquisition will further strengthen the insurance broker's "financial ...

Adviser number growth shoots?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... superannuation remains the primary source of insurance, and while total life insurance flows have remained relatively flat, risk inflows - which make up the majority of these flows - show no significant growth year on year. He concluded this marks a ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... "However, with financial conditions easing and the global economy, notably in the US, continuing to show strength there is a risk that a 'no landing' scenario whereby inflation remains stubbornly high and rates remaining higher for longer will ...

MetLife snaps up three investment teams from Mesirow

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... advance the development of its leveraged finance platform as it adds opportunistic high yield and bank loan strategies with risk-return profiles that complement its offering, including those from its acquisition of PineBridge Investments. MetLife Investment ...