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Political risk pushes institutional investors to cash: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Institutional Investor Indicators for June, showing risk appetite fell 0.09 in June, revealing a modest risk off bias across the month. State Street Global Markets head of macro ...

New lending for property investors up 30%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
New housing lending unexpectedly fell in May, declining by 1.7% for the month. Lending to owner-occupiers and to investors both fell in the month but remain well above levels seen this time last year. In fact, new lending to investors has been very ...

Regulation, profitability top adviser worries: BT

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
The heavy hand of the law and cost to run a profitable business are the two major worries of financial advisers, a new BT survey shows. Compliance burdens and constant legislative change are keeping financial advisers awake at night as 38% cited regulation ...

ASIC levy to slug advisers $48.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
ASIC's regulation activity for the 2024 financial year is expected to slug financial advisers $48.39 million collectively as the annual levy does not appear to be reducing. Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on relevant financial ...

Investment veterans take on new roles

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
A former chief investment officer of Zurich Insurance has a new regional lead role, while an ex-TCorp strategy head took on a chief investment officer position. Michael Vos has been appointed head of investments for Asia Pacific. The investment professional ...

ASX delistings outpacing new market entries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
The latest EQT ASX Group Monthly Activity Report for June 2024 highlighted a significant trend of ASX delistings outpacing new market entries last financial year. The report suggested investors were increasingly pivoting towards private markets in search ...

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Future Group's flagship super offering has returned 10.1%, while Verve Super achieved 9.9% last financial year. The results are for the Future Super Balanced Index option and Verve Super's standalone strategy. Future Group said the results are proof ...

Cbus MySuper investment option returns 8.35%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Cbus has reported an 8.35% return for its growth MySuper investment option for the last financial year. The $94 billion industry fund said that the option has averaged an annual return of 7.73% over the past 10 years. It has achieved an average annual ...

New technology chief joins GROW Inc.

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
GROW Inc. has appointed a chief technology officer, recruiting a former Canva and Google executive. Wendy Glasgow was named in the role, joining the growing administrator last month. She will leverage her global experience in technology and data to ...

ANZ, Blackstone launch HNWI fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
ANZ and global alternatives fund manager Blackstone have launched a multi-asset strategy for high-net-worth investors (HNWI). The Graphene Alternative Fund is an Australian unit trust and absolute-return strategy that is exclusive to ANZ Private clients. ...