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Future Group commences organisational restructure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
Future Group is undertaking an organisational restructure to consolidate the operations of its subsidiaries, smartMonday, GuildSuper, and Verve Super, leading to job cuts. Future Group chief executive Simon Sheikh said in a letter to investors that ...

Twynam Group targets US$50m for new fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... bull***t." "Really, the purpose for the Tywnam Earth Fund is purely to invest in decarbonisation technology, so early-stage deep tech technology, from Pre-Seed to Series B - so, anything which we think can have a large-scale impact in decreasing in carbon ...

ANZ gets green light for Suncorp merger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
ANZ has had a significant legal win on appeal, with its proposed $4.9 billion acquisition of Suncorp's banking arm given the go-ahead. The decision to authorise the takeover was handed down this morning by the Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT) ...

UK, Japan slip into technical recession

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
Two of the world's major economies fell into recession at the end of 2023. The UK's gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.3% in the fourth quarter of last year following a contraction of 0.1% in September quarter, according to the Office for National ...

Investment Trends ranks top five platforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024
Investment Trends 2023 Platform Benchmarking Report has positioned HUB24 as the best full-function platform, narrowly outperforming Netwealth. In the report's analysis of platform developments aimed at supporting the provision of advice to clients ...

Sydney HNWI drops $24m on EG building

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024
... Building totals 3510 square metres and has an occupancy rate of 85%. The multi-tenanted building, which includes EG's own prop-tech business, has a weighted average lease expiry (WALE) of 3.6 years. "Investors value high-quality commercial buildings ...

AI poses potential challenge to financial stability: Gensler

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... infallible, sometimes generating completely inaccurate information. "We've seen in our economy how one or a small number of tech platforms can come to dominate a field. There's one leading search engine, one leading retail platform, and three leading ...

AMP reports boost in IFA flows, mulls advice unit options

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
Despite seeing an influx of independent financial advisers' (IFAs) business, AMP continues to seek alternatives for its advice unit as it reports another loss. In the first half of the 2024 financial year, the wealth firm recorded a 33% year on ...

Challenger overhauls IT, awards mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
Challenger has awarded a mandate to a major professional services firm to overhaul its technological infrastructure. Accenture has been mandated for seven years to upgrade Challenger's technology that will ultimately affect customers, financial ...

Claremont Global launches ETF range

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
Retail investors can now gain access to the unhedged Claremont Global Fund (CGUN) and the hedged Claremont Global Fund (CGHE) on the ASX. Claremont Global head and co-portfolio manager Bob Desmond said its decision to target the retail market is due ...