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Bullock hushes rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock has calmed market expectations for an interest rate cut in May, saying it is too early for the bank to decide yet. Bullock noted the extreme market volatility because of US President Donald Trump's ...

CA ANZ launches AI fluency certificate for finance professionals

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) has launched an AI Fluency certificate to arm financial professionals with the skills to work with Generative AI. CA ANZ group executive education and marketing Simon Hann said the certificate ...

ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... governance?'," he said. "From my perspective, ASIC's role [is] how can we help make the system work better? And to my mind, we can't really do that, and this really goes to the heart of the public-private markets paper we published a few ...

HMC Capital to launch new private equity vehicle

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Building on its success, HMC Capital will relaunch the HMC Capital Partners Fund I with an expanded mandate. HMC Capital Partners Fund I (HMCCP Fund I) - predominantly targeting listed investments up to 10 positions - delivered more than 55% net returns ...

Not one trustee tracked end-to-end claims handling times: ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
... meaningful performance objectives, tracking or reporting, and have failed to approach claims handling with consumers front of mind." Constant highlighted one "distressing" complaint in which one trustee took over 500 days to pay a death benefit of around ...

Jones clarifies scope of new class of adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... I've seen emerge over the two years of the scheme's operation, there's some stuff that just doesn't, in my mind, end up being consistent with those objectives," he said. "Hypothetical losses, for example, and some other issues. It troubles ...

Modern family offices want values aligned, pioneer companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
Family offices of today are aligning their values and principles across all generations to back pioneer companies that will create deep impact and competitive returns, the recent Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific heard. Speaking at the two-day event ...

Hearts & Minds revalues position amid Opthea fallout

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
Following Regal's lead, Hearts & Minds Investments has now also revalued its holding in Opthea following its failed clinical trials. Yesterday, Regal announced it had significantly devalued its holdings in the biopharmaceutical company after it ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Social purpose organisation Good Return has launched its second impact fund, aimed at supporting marginalised female entrepreneurs across the Asia-Pacific region. The evergreenfund is seeking to raise $10 million from Australian wholesale investors ...

Australians 'overwhelmed' by retirement: Aware

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Sixty-three percent of Australians aged 45 and over are concerned or anxious about retirement according to Aware Super's State of Retirement report, with almost nine in 10 people worried they will run out of money. The research found one in 10 people ...