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ETF industry passes $250bn mark

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... were similarly driven by market cap strategies in January, with net flows more than doubling since December," VanEck said. "Gold miners were the top-performing ETFs for January. There are reasons to believe this could be the start of a rally for gold ...

Frontier hires new real assets lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
Frontier Advisors has added a former Westbourne Capital executive to head up its real assets team. The investment consulting firm has tasked Lucy Minichiello with leading a dedicated team of eight infrastructure and property specialists and further ...

Westpac names new chief executive of wealth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
Westpac has appointed Paul Fowler to the role of chief executive, business and wealth, to take over the role from the acting chief executive mid-year. Westpac said Fowler is an exceptional leader in financial services and brings a career spanning more ...

Depreciating Aussie dollar could prove opportunistic

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... should bolster consumer demand for credit, and lower funding costs," Griffin said. Additionally, Griffin said the Australian gold price is now valued relatively high and could produce plenty of margins for domestic miners. "We are expecting hits and ...

Fidelity picks Southeast Asia lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Fidelity International has appointed Wildon Goh as head of Southeast Asia and country head of Singapore. Goh succeeds Sabrina Gan who left the firm in December to Goldman Sachs' client solutions group as head of third-party wealth in Southeast Asia. ...

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs top M&A advisory rankings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were the leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisors in the financial services sector last year, in terms of deal volume, according to GlobalData. The data and analytics firm's analysis revealed that Morgan Stanley ...

Iress sells superannuation business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
Iress has entered into a binding agreement to sell its superannuation business to global financial services provider Apex Group. Iress said the decision to divest the superannuation business follows a strategic review as part of the company's transformation ...

Best ESG super options revealed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... would have benefitted from the outsized returns of the sector." Australian Ethical Super Employer International Shares scored gold in the league tables. It returned 8.7% over the three years to November 2024, and 24.4% over 12 months. Tracking the MSCI ...

Goldman Sachs AM nabs Fidelity veteran

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Goldman Sachs has confirmed that Sabrina Gan has joined the client solutions group as a managing director and head of third-party wealth in Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, Gan will focus on driving growth with our third-party wealth clients across ...

Bitcoin now 7th largest global asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... market capitalisation of over US$2 trillion, placing it among the top seven largest assets in the world, joining the ranks of gold and tech giants NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon. "This is a remarkable milestone that is even more ...