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Growthpoint sells down majority stake in six industrial assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
NASDAQ-listed alternatives fund manager TPG will acquire a major stake in six assets of Growthpoint Properties Australia's industrial and logistics portfolio. Terms of the agreement will see the US fund manager's subsidiary TPG Angelo Gordon ...

HESTA snags AMP head of compliance

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
HESTA has named a general manager, compliance, recruiting the head of risk and compliance from AMP's superannuation business. Tim Pietsch has taken on the role and brings extensive experience across the financial services sector to the fold. He joins ...

Praemium unveils Spectrum for HNWs

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... cater to the "increasingly unique requirements" of HNW clients. According to Praemium and Investment Trends' HNW Investor report, the number of HNW investors now sits at 690,000 in Australia, controlling $3.3 trillion in investable assets. As a result ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... "Increasing productivity is still the surest path to sustainable increases in real wages and higher living standards." The report noted that while our overall productivity performance has reverted to pre-pandemic levels, the macroeconomic environment ...

Retirement calculators 'can't be counted on': SCA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... $52,000 a year - which could be the difference between someone struggling to get by or living in relative comfort, the report said. Much of the variation was due to differences in how funds calculate retirement income, often using "arbitrary assumptions" ...

ETFs preferred vehicles for Aussie, US advisers: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
The low-cost features of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to attract the glut of financial advisers both here and overseas as only a minority now shun the investment vehicles, new surveys find. The portion of advisers canvassed in VanEck's ...

Colonial First State hires PE head, farewells sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Colonial First State has hired a local investment director from a global pension fund to run private equity and unlisted assets. At the same time, its head of investment sales has exited. The wealth and superannuation giant confirmed that Chloé Brayne ...

Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... management sector, as well as tighter regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology, according to a KPMG report. The report said that stopping companies from making false or misleading claims about the sustainability of their products ...

GQG breaches SEC whistleblower protection laws

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... about GQG, particularly to government agencies. Such arrangements, the regulator said, made it more difficult for them to report potential securities law violations to the SEC. The NDAs in question were drawn up between November 2020 through September ...

Schroders launches high yield credit strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Schroders is providing retail investors with access to the local wholesale high yielding credit universe via a new fund. The Schroder Australian High Yielding Credit Fund, which has been an allocation within Schroders fixed income and multi-asset strategies ...