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Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... publicly opposing the Vietnam War but soon became head of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University, part of the State University of New York system. Simons left academia to start Monometrics in 1978, later renamed Renaissance Technologies. ...

UniSuper restores online services, app

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
UniSuper's systems are back online, after close to two weeks of disruption following the deletion of its private cloud. In an update today, UniSuper chief executive Peter Chun said online services across the fund's website and app have been ...

APRA 'continuing to monitor' UniSuper outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
UniSuper has commenced the restoration of its services, as APRA confirms it is monitoring the situation which arose when the fund's private cloud was inadvertently deleted. In a brief statement to Financial Standard, APRA said it is "aware of the ...

Litigation funder disputes AMP BOLR settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
... $11,343,317.94 in legal fees and disbursements) in the class action. The Federal Court said it is "not possible, at this stage, to state the total of the Funder's Entitlements" as it depends on several matters that include an assessment of the reasonableness ...

Experts weigh in: Will the RBA hike rates again?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left interest rate unchanged at the May meeting, as was widely expected by economists. But some have suggested another hike could be on the horizon given less than optimistic inflation data which rose 1% in the March ...

ATO introduces trust taxation changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has announced income tax reporting changes under the Modernisation of Trust Administration Systems (MTAS) that will come into effect on July 1. For beneficiaries of a trust, there will be a new trust income schedule ...

Stockspot plots entry into superannuation space

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
Stockspot is preparing to launch a superannuation offering that would see members' retirement savings invested exclusively in ETFs. The trading platform is planning to launch Stockspot Super later this year, first bringing an accumulation product to ...

UniSuper outage continues, no cause identified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
The super fund plans to begin restoring services later this week, though chief executive Peter Chun has told members the root cause of the outage remains unknown. UniSuper's systems, including its app, have been down for about a week now, with members ...

Farewell TelstraSuper: Largest corporate fund explores merger options

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
TelstraSuper is searching for a merger partner, after its board concluded that size and scale are "increasingly important" to serving members' best financial interests. "The TelstraSuper Board see this as an exciting opportunity for members as we ...

Fidelity to roll out more active ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
The fund manager is looking to significantly boost its local lineup of active ETFs. Fidelity is seeking the approval of unitholders to modify the constitutions of a number of its managed funds to enable listing of a class of units on either the ASX ...