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Boutique investment manager hits the market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... Birkhold said the goal is to break away from conventional metrics, like EPS growth and Price-to-Earnings ratios, and instead focus on economic measures of corporate performance and embedded expectations to create, not diminish, the wealth of clients. ...

Former Mercer Super chair named Actuary of the Year

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... Actuaries Institute chief executive Elayne Grace said: "Jan is renowned for thinking big and being bold while having a laser focus on ensuring the best outcomes for individuals and communities." "She is an outstanding role model for our profession."

Powerhouse Ventures to acquire Aliwa

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... Powerhouse targets businesses with emerging intellectual property, mainly those in the science and engineering fields. Its focus sectors are electrification and decarbonisation, next-generation computing, space technologies, and healthcare and wellness. ...

GAM Investments loses local lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
Alex Zaika, the local head of GAM Investments, has resigned from his role at the Switzerland-based asset manager to join another firm. It is understood that the global asset manager is currently searching for Zaika's replacement. Zaika, who joined ...

Macquarie cops US$80m from SEC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
The US securities watchdog fined Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) US$80 million after a subsidiary fudged the valuations of collateralised mortgage obligations (CMOs) within a fixed income strategy. Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust (MIMBT) ...

Federal Reserve kicks off easing cycle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... that the inflation risks have diminished while labour market conditions are at some risk of deterioration." "The increasing focus on the labour market side of the Fed's dual mandate comes now that inflation, to all intents and purposes, looks to have ...

ASIC sees case against Rest thrown out

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
ASIC's case against Rest, in which it alleged the super fund misled members about their ability to transfer superannuation out of the fund, has been thrown out by the Federal Court. The case focused on Rest's past practices around rollover requests ...

RBA doubling down on wholesale CBDC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... stakeholders on the question of how our monetary arrangements could better support the Australian economy in the digital age." The focus on a wholesale CBDC development would mean that a retail CBDC is left out in the cold, and for several reasons surrounding ...

TelstraSuper picks Equip for merger partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... excited about the potential benefits that come from a merger and the opportunity to create a larger fund continuing the focus on providing industry leading superannuation, retirement and financial planning solutions for members." TelstraSuper said a ...

Investment boutique calls time after seven years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Wheelhouse Investment Partners is closing its doors, having decided it's no longer financially sustainable to continue operating its funds. Wheelhouse Investment Partners was founded in May 2017 as a specialist income manager by Alastair MacLeod ...