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Cbus appoints deputy investment chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
Cbus has named a new deputy chief investment officer to replace the role Alexandra Campbell vacated last July. Leigh Gavin was promoted to the role after serving as head of portfolio strategies since October 2023. Gavin oversaw the super fund's ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... the same methodology and looking only at months when shares performed best, bitcoin tended to outperform shares, bonds, and gold. "When shares perform poorly, bitcoin's price has typically fallen even harder. When the share market is strong, its price ...

Payton Capital welcomes head of credit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... strengthen our credit risk capability. Since the acquisition by HMC Capital, Payton Capital has opened a new office on the Gold Coast and established a presence in Western Australia. This expansion is in addition to existing operations in Victoria, New ...

BlackRock names regional insto client lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
BlackRock's high-profile George Maltezos.has broadened his role to lead institutional client business for South East Asia. This is the third new role for Maltezos during his two years at the world's largest asset manager. First, he was head ...

Finance workers worry about job displacement from AI, government urged to take action

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
Financial services employees worry their jobs are being increasingly upended by artificial intelligence (AI), as an inquiry asks the government to urgently balance technological advancements and potential job displacements. The Future of Work report ...

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. ...