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Future Fund delivers strong 11.9% return

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... investment portfolios. These include inflation regimes, climate and decarbonisation, populism, deglobalisation, technology disruption, and changing asset class correlations. "In our view this new investment order means the longer-term investment environment ...

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... the short-term market noise created by this year's US election cycle to harness the major trends of deglobalisation, disruption and decarbonisation by increasing their exposure to global equities and private equity. Schroders said investors were committed ...

IMF issues stark inflation warning for Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its inflation predictions for 2025, upping Australia's consumer price index expectations from 2.8% to 3.6%. In its World Economic Outcomes report, the IMF predicted Australia would be one of two advanced ...

Australian Ethical FUM nears $13bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
... flows of $90 million were lower due to the administration transition to GROW in mid-September, which caused a mild disruption to its service delivery. It is anticipated to complete in November. McMurdo also highlighted another key project currently in ...

Pitcher Partners executives launch advice firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Three Pitcher Partners executives have set off to launch Viola Private Wealth, an ultra-high-net-worth financial advice firm spearheaded by Charlie Viola. Viola, together with founding partners Sean Ward and Andrew Levi, bought out operational aspects ...

Mercer awarded mandate for North's APS CoreSeries

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... of up to eight basis points per year, and in turns will translate better outcomes for investors. It also minimises disruption by enabling clients to remain invested, avoiding time out of the market and incurring fees associated with exiting and reinvesting ...

ASIC project foils scammers' operations

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
A year into its investment scam disruption project, ASIC has taken down more than 7300 phishing and investment scam websites. This includes the removal of 5530 fake investment platform scams since July 2023. It has also seen the closure of 1065 phishing ...

BlackRock names Asia Pacific operations chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... align with the structural changes taking place in the global economy," she said. "These market forces - be they digital disruption, demographic divergence, transition to a low-carbon economy or geopolitical fragmentation - are presenting us with opportunities ...

Sequoia chief reappointed, hunt for successor kicks off

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... Sweeney said. Sequoia also announced that it expects to report FY24 numbers in late August, and despite "significant disruption" to the business over recent months, will see revenue of approximately $125 million and normalised EBITDA of around $8.5 million ...

Clime completes Madison Financial sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... today, June 28. Clime said the strong cultural alignment will enable a smooth transition for advisers with minimal disruption to their business, and strategic partnership opportunities for the parties. The divestment also positions Clime for profit improvement ...