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Pengana pauses share buyback

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... across 22 million shares, which are due for repayment on October 31. These loans were given to employees and contractors to help them purchase company shares at earlier market prices. The loans are split into two tranches. The first tranche, valued at ...

QIC reports $9bn record earnings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... most investments outperforming their targets. QIC's assets under management also increased to $111.7 billion with the help of 70% of investments exceeding performance objectives. It earned operating pre-tax profit of $125 million in FY24. An additional ...

Trust in advisers reaches new high: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
Trust in financial advisers is at an all-time high, according to a new survey from the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA), which found their value-add has been particularly critical in the cost-of-living crisis. The Value of Advice Index ...

Ontario Teachers', Hines snap up build-to-rent portfolio

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and global real estate investment manager Hines have acquired two build-to-rent (BTR) properties in Brisbane, comprising 354 units, from ADCO Group. The first property, located at 28 Robertson Street in Fortitude Valley ...

Fund manager splashes $240m on AZ NGA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... million in AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) and will become its largest shareholder. Oaktree Capital Management will help AZ NGA further expand its reach as its growth and succession partner, taking over the reins from Azimut as the major shareholder. ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The final budget outcome for 2023/24 came in as a surplus of $15.8 billion - or 0.6% of GDP - for the underlying cash balance - an improvement of $6.5 billion on the previous estimates. The better-than-expected outcome was driven mainly by the payments ...

GESB adopts Protecting Your Super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... fund with the broader superannuation industry and the Protecting Your Super legislation, which was introduced in 2019 to help avoid unnecessary erosion of account balances. As of September 25, GESB can now cancel insurance in accounts that have not received ...

Retirement calculators 'can't be counted on': SCA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... poor-quality guidance. Our findings cast doubt on whether super funds have the capability to provide quality tools and guidance to help their members plan for retirement," SCA chief executive Xavier O'Halloran said. Most calculators offered no guidance ...

Limiting negative gearing could add $2bn in annual revenue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... bracket creep to do the heavy lifting on budget repair," Grattan said. "Cutting back on poorly justified tax expenditures would help to close the government's structural budget deficit, which is currently about 1-1.5% of GDP, and it would make our tax ...

Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... creating challenges for global asset managers to reap the benefits of new technology. Asset managers are looking to AI to help them drive performance improvements, for example, summarising vast volumes of data and information to drive investment decisions ...