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Just 14.8% of hedge fund leaders are female: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... in Australia are going to women. Despite the low number, the research highlights the Australian market had higher performance in the past 12 months, and the past five years show a moderate degree of correlation with higher proportions of female leadership. ...

Future Generation welcomes Mike Baird as new chair

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... are incredibly grateful to Jonathan for his outstanding leadership which has delivered solid investment portfolio performance to shareholders and a social investment of $26.8 million in our children and youth at risk charity partner," he said. "Future ...

Westpac offloads BT super funds to Mercer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... trustee engaged broadly with the industry to "create a larger superannuation fund with the potential to deliver improves performance, lower fees, and broader member services". "It also maintains continuity of knowledge and service for BT Super members," ...

Total super assets grow to $3.4tn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
APRA's latest quarterly superannuation performance statistics show the industry's total assets increased almost 10% over the past year. Super assets totalled $3.4 trillion at the end of March 2022, a 9.7% increase from the year prior. The total assets ...

Australian dividends shatter pre-pandemic records: Janus Henderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022
... during the pandemic. Such circumstances made it easier to make up lost ground. A crux to Australia's stellar dividend performance, the report said banking and mining once again accounted for the lion's share of dividends. "Historically responsible for ...

Mitsui, Nomura to acquire New Forests

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... forestry as central to the transition to a sustainable future. Mitsui's managing officer and chief operating officer, performance materials business unit Hiroshi Kakiuchi said: "Mitsui's investment in New Forests is part of our sustainability strategy ...

How AMP plans to bounce back

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
AMP's chair has explained how the group intends to improve its financial performance, while Alexis George outlined how the 173-year-old company will be transformed, with a strong focus on the retirement space. Kicking off the company's annual ...

Allianz subsidiary, former portfolio managers charged over massive fraud

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... manipulated financial reports and other information for investors to conceal the strategy's true risk and actual performance. For example, the SEC said: "Defendants reduced losses under a market crash scenario in one risk report sent to investors ...

Trust in financial services jumps: CFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... services and financial advisers. The report identified five factors that had driven trust higher: strong share market performance, fee compression on investment products, a greater level of technology-enabled transparency on investment products, easier ...

Good isn't good enough for the super system: Byres

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
... focus continues to be to drive out sub-standard products and practices, using a combination of the government's annual performance test, our own heatmaps, intensified supervision and when needed a more muscular approach to enforcement." Byres' rhetoric ...