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HMC Capital makes $400m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
... hyperscale and enterprise customers. This acquisition is also highly complementary to our recent acquisition of Global Switch Australia with a number of benefits including enhanced geographic and customer diversification," HMC managing director and chief ...

Super complaints rise in FY24: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
AFCA's Annual Review revealed the ombudsman service received a record 104,861 complaints from consumers and small businesses in 2023-24, up 8% on the year before. Of those, AFCA received 7325 superannuation complaints, a 5% increase from the previous ...

Qantas Super lowers investment fees, updates cash option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
Qantas Super announced changes to its Cash option, updated its exclusions criteria, and lowered investment fees for members. The Cash option's objective is to achieve a return after tax and investment fees equal to the Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill ...

HMC Capital makes $2bn acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... Infrastructure REIT, intended to be listed on the ASX alongside a new unlisted institutional fund. HMC will acquire Global Switch Australia for $1.937 billion as a seed asset for the Global DigiCo Platform. To underwrite the acquisition, HMC is undertaking ...

Super fund fees exploit Australians' low financial literacy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
Vanguard Investments Australia managing director Daniel Shrimski believes Australians would be shocked to learn how much is being drained from their retirement savings through super fund fees. New research commissioned by Vanguard, conducted by CT Group ...

Goldman Sachs switches up equity research leadership

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
Goldman Sachs has announced its co-head of Australia equity research Andrew Lyons will depart after 12 years with the firm. As a result of the departure, the firm's current mining analyst Paul Young will join Matthew Ross as co-head of Australia and ...

AustralianSuper updates deceased members' investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... Direct option, this is generally within 14 business days from notification to allow time to sell down investments. The switch, however, could potentially be delayed if there are dividends due but not yet paid, pending corporate actions, or restricted ...

Nudging pre-retirees has 'little effect'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The Australian government has recommended super funds use 'nudging' to help encourage members to engage more with their retirement savings, however new research from Yale University in the US has found the practice doesn't work as well as initially ...

Megatrends impacting portfolio construction: Mercer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... know that major economies are all facing the same challenge. They've got to kick off the old school energy grid and switch to a different sort of energy, storage, and usage process," Jacques said. "What are the opportunities that play out here, and ...

The transferrable skills for advisers who changed careers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... financial advice from the lens of a major career change. Forbes was a professional baseball player in the US before he made the switch to financial advice. Problem solving, discipline, resilience, teamwork, and collaboration were some of the key skills ...