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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 ...

GQG ends year with $32.7bn net inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... institutional client made a "significant partial redemption" in the first half of last year, because they wanted to reduce the active risk in their global sleeves. Abernethy noted that this is a "good reason for us to have a partial redemption." GQG ...

Chalmers boasts inflation data, experts divided

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... RBA's target band," Bloxham said. "For the RBA, [the] trimmed mean indicator figures are likely to suggest modest downside risk to the central bank's forecast for 3.4% yoy on the Q4 quarterly trimmed measure. However, the job vacancy data add ...

AustralianSuper wins fund of the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... that will sustain this growth over time, for example, growth beyond member services and investment teams into areas such as risk, technology, data, finance, legal, and other enterprise functions. He also said the fund has also made deliberate choices ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... including inadequate review processes to assess compliance for its representatives under financial services laws, limited risk management system, and lack of human resources and responsible managers with suitable expertise for the diverse financial services ...

HPI rethinks Hostplus, Charter Hall takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... a review of HPI's portfolio and management, as well as its distribution and capital management policies. "There is a risk that the current decision making, operations and/or strategic direction of HPI may change in a way that could be detrimental ...

Court finds CFD issuers engaged in 'unconscionable conduct'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... case to stand up for vulnerable consumers. "Over a two-year period, USG and its authorised representatives downplayed the risk and overpromised profits of the high-risk CFD products," she said. "These entities profited from trades when their customers ...

Boutique global asset management firms' investment outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... growth will need to do more of the heavy lifting for markets to maintain their upward trajectory next year. "Concentration risk remains the evident challenge with the US constituting two-thirds of the MSCI ACWI and the ten largest US stocks being more ...