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Oreana targets early education assets with new fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... expanded footprint in Australia, the property development and investment firm has launched a new fund targeting early education properties for wholesale and institutional investors. The fund is seeking an initial capital raise of $60 million to acquire ...

Frontier promotes staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... advisory platform. Before that, she spent three years as an analyst with Rask Australia, an investment research and education company. Goh will primarily focus on equities research and consulting advice. At the same time, long-serving senior consultant ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... meaningful work and pathways that last a lifetime." The report recommended consideration be given to legislating career education within the Australian curriculum. This has been done in North Carolina, where all middle and high school students must complete ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... passing of the landmark Three Day Guarantee Bill on February 13, which guarantees three days of subsidised early childhood education and care (ECEC) and effectively removes the activity test for all families. The bill not only aims to make ECEC accessible ...

Family office CIO joins Heritvest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... including with the Myer Family Company. The investment chief - who currently chairs the Actuaries Institute's banking education faculty - joins Heritvest from Metrics Credit Partners, where he served as treasurer. Before that, he worked at Escala ...

Advisers grapple with AI, require support: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... advisers are currently using artificial intelligence (AI) in their practice at a basic level, but many more say they need education and guidance, a new Investment Trends study finds. Some 27% of advisers that are embracing AI rate themselves as "beginners" ...

Property developer, investment firm goes 'all in' on Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... some time and will now make its investment expertise - across property, private credit, financial services, and early education - available to Australian, Asian, and global investors. "We have an 'all in' mindset from the outset of any venture ...

UniSuper targets 'missing middle' with new digital advice offering

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... advice offering to the "missing middle" of members who wouldn't ordinarily seek advice. UniSuper head of advice and education Andrew Gregory told Financial Standard that the fund partnered with Ignition to build an "easy and simple solution" for members ...

SMSF Association names annual award winners

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... sector, and no one better symbolises this description than Leigh who has been a major contributor via her exceptional education skills," Hay-Bartlem said. "In addition to her contributions to education, Leigh's leadership and insights during the 2024 ...

Insignia Financial improves losses amid takeover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... administration functions, including claims, complaints, product development, relationship management, marketing, and member education, advice and guidance." The results come as Insignia Financial fields several takeover offers. According to reports ...