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RBA seeks input on CBDC research project

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is seeking industry feedback on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) research initiative, Project Acacia. The project will explore how different forms of digital money and associated infrastructure could support ...

Insignia snags TAL executives for new retirement solutions team

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
Insignia Financial is creating a new team to drive innovation in retirement solutions for its MLC brand, to be led by TAL Australia's chief commercial officer Andrew Howard. Howard has been appointed as executive director, strategy and innovation. His ...

Jones preps DBFO Tranche 2 for parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said the government will press on with Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms that he is preparing to introduce in parliament. The highly anticipated set of changes promise to remove laborious ...

Global equity, AREIT managers biggest underperformers: S&P Dow Jones

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
Australian global equity and AREIT fund managers prove to be the biggest underperformers over the long term as more than 86% lag the index, an S&P Dow Jones Indices report finds. Australian fund managers, who invest in general global equities, continue ...

'Challenging period' for active managers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
The S&P Dow Jones SPIVA Global Scorecard has revealed another tough year for active management in 2024. Initially covering just US-domiciled funds, nine regional year-end scorecards now cover active performance in funds operating in markets in Australia ...

Australia's best-performing super fund says no to crypto

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Colonial First State (CFS), the best-performing super fund of the last financial year, has ruled out the idea of adding crypto to its investment portfolio. Despite its popularity, with nearly five million Australians owning crypto, CFS chief investment ...

Moneysoft acquired by MUFG Pension & Market Services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
MUFG Pension & Market Services has acquired 100% of financial software Moneysoft, with plans to integrate the technology into its retirement product portfolio. Moneysoft has become part of the Retirement Solutions business at MUFG Pension & Market Services ...

Growthpoint sells down majority stake in six industrial assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... expertise, and broad flexibility to provide solutions for portfolio companies, clients, and shareholders," TPG chief executive Jon Winkelried said last year. The group has US$229 billion in total assets. Jim Coulter and David Bonderman co-founded TPG ...

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 ...

Global X launches latest global equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Global X has brought to the Australian market the first index-based 'Growth at a Reasonable Price' ETF. The Global X S&P World Ex-Australia GARP ETF (GARP) tracks the S&P World ex Australia GARP Index, holding 250 companies, and charges a management ...