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Future Fund veteran takes on new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Future Fund emerging markets lead has taken up a new role at Australia's sovereign wealth fund. Industry heavyweight Craig Thorburn - who has been with the fund for almost two decades - has been appointed director of thought leadership. While leading ...

Insignia Financial trims $5bn off FUM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
Market volatility and institutional outflows shaved $5 billion off Insignia Financial's funds under management (FUM) last quarter. In the March quarter, Insignia Financial said about $1.8 billion of the $3 billion an institutional client poured into ...

Centrepoint Alliance to acquire Brighter Super's advice book

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... its referral network to support scalable advice delivery. The fund now supports more than 1500 IFAs. The fund's initiative follows findings from the Brighter Super and Investment Trends 2024 Retirement Income Report, which revealed that 47% of pre-retirees ...

VanEck to intro RMBS, India ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
VanEck will soon list two new ETFs, one being an RMBS strategy and the other investing in Indian growth stocks. The VanEck Australian RMBS ETF (ASX: RMBS) will give investors access to a residential mortgage-backed securities strategy, which VanEck ...

GESB expands leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
GESB, the super fund for Western Australia's public sector, added a former HESTA executive as its chief member experience officer, while also welcoming a chief corporate services officer. Both are newly created roles for GESB, which is undergoing ...

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 ...

Plenary names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
Plenary Group has named its new chief executive as incumbent David Lamming exits the post on July 1. Chief investment officer Paul Crowe takes over the top job. He joined the firm in 2005, involved in structuring and executing most of the major infrastructure ...

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 ...

Buyout firm nabs GQG executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
EQT, the Swedish buyout firm, has snapped up GQG Partners' long-serving distribution lead. Daniel Bullock - who worked at GQG for six years - has been appointed EQT's head of private wealth in Australia. Under his leadership, GQG's distribution ...

Aware Super completes phase one of 'Project Odin'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... easily accessible data at both fund and plan levels. "We're excited to move forward with the next phase of this initiative to further enhance our investment capabilities with the new platform and to reap the benefits of digital innovation on behalf ...