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VGI Partners posts $43m in June half profits

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2021
... Hazeltree, and a new trading cycle software Enfusion. It is migrating to cloud-based systems across the firm and making cyber security enhancements. Earlier this year, VGI's global investment LIC was targeted by investors David Kingston and Malcolm ...

SuperConcepts names CIO, CTO

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021
SuperConcepts announced two key leadership appointments across its information technology division. Andy Forbes is the new chief technology officer, a role he's taken on permanently after he was appointed in February on an interim basis. He has been ...

Super fund member meetings under the spotlight

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2021
Superannuation funds need to lift their game when it comes to annual member meetings as ASIC found that many should be giving members a better opportunity to have their voices heard. While the the corporate regulator did not identify significant failures ...

EQT partners with ETF specialist

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... aiming to deliver 2-3% above the MSCI ACWI ex Australia Index. The fund invests in sectors such as information technology, cyber security, communications services, medical devices and robotics. The minimum investible amount is $5000. The launch comes ...

Governance Institute of Australia names chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... navigate growing complexity and increasing challenges," she said. "Climate change risk, real time technological change, cyber risk, and the changing notion of consumers are just some of the issues that will require an evolution of our boards, our company ...

Ian Silk to leave AustralianSuper

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
The chief executive of Australia's biggest superannuation fund AustralianSuper will step down before the end of the year. Having led the fund since its creation on 1 July 2006, Ian Silk is set to leave the super fund at the end of this year. Chief ...

ASIC looks to tighten crypto ETP oversight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... proposing responsible entities disclose market risk, pricing risk, immutability, increased regulation risk, custody risk, cyber risk and environmental risk. "We also consider that minimum standards as to pricing, risk management and custody should apply ...

HESTA awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
One of Australia's largest super funds, $60 billion industry fund HESTA, has selected a software-as-a-service platform to manage its finance operations. TechnologyOne was selected by the fund to streamline financial reporting, with the aim of allowing ...

IFM Investors named in class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... transporting around 2.5 million barrels of gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and jet fuel per day. On 7 May 2021, a ransomware cyber attack shut down the Colonial Pipeline. The entire east coast of the US was deprived of its normal supply of petroleum. ...

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
Assets in thematic funds in Australia have grown exponentially in the last year after showing stellar results through the pandemic but performance over the long term is lacklustre, new research shows. Morningstar's latest Global Thematic Funds Landscape ...