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ART appoints two new directors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... Domain Administration, following a career at JP Morgan Chase. ART said Wyer is widely recognised for her expertise in technology, finance and risk. Amanda Newman also joins the board, bringing more than 20 years of experience in communications, campaigning ...

State Street boosts digital asset access with new platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
State Street has launched a new digital asset platform as it looks to broaden institutional investors' access to the asset class. The new platform enables State Street to continue to develop "core products" like tokenised money markets funds (MMFs) ...

Cordis AM winds up only fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
Cordis Asset Management will close its only fund, the Cordis Global Medical Technology Fund, after more than four years in operation. Cordis chief executive Michael Cartmill told Financial Standard it was a "difficult but disciplined" decision that ...

Replace capital gains discount with income averaging: e61

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... whether they earn regular wages or have a volatile one-off gain," e61 research economist Matt Maltman said. "Improved technology including digital record-keeping, pre-fill, and improved ATO systems raises the possibility of returning to a system that ...

Maple-Brown Abbott partners to launch global infra fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... billion in infrastructure strategies. The new fund will benefit from Pacific AM's institutional-grade infrastructure, technology, and operational resources to provide efficiencies and pricing power, it said. It will also draw on Pacific's established ...

GDG awards Hackett big pay day

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... and complexity of GDG, including the strengthening of regulatory and risk capabilities, rationalisation of the groups technology architecture, and the establishment of a scalable operating model to support growth following the Lonsec and Evidentia acquisitions," ...

Financing the technological revolution: AI issuance in credit

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... will drive a gradual widening in credit spreads more broadly as the market absorbs this supply." "We're seeing the technology and communications sectors underperform, with spreads widening on a relative basis, in both US investment grade and high ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
Latest research by World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has found that top technology companies including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft lack in mobilising low-carbon investments through capital expenditure and R&D, even though they have an emissions ...

APRA executive director of super, life insurance exits

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026
... 2024. Beverley-Smith was hired as part of an organisational restructuring to better support APRA's capability in technology and data and aligning its communication and stakeholder teams. This was done through the creation of new executive director ...

GESB alignment strategy sees member, FUM growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
... have. As I said, we're undertaking feasibility assessment this year. "It will require making sure that all the technology and infrastructure we have around that supports the interaction with an app. But I think it's fair to say we would like ...