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Top asset management trends for 2025

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Despite a turbulent 2024, the prospect of more accommodating monetary and regulatory policies has turbocharged an up and to the right trend that's flattered many asset managers' businesses. However, themes that will shape the industry now, and in the ...

Court sentences Ponzi scheme promoter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
The Federal Court has sentenced the promoter of Courtenay House for his involvement in one of the country's biggest Ponzi schemes. David Sipina was handed down three years' imprisonment to be served via an intensive correction order after pleading ...

Superhero Super assets to swell via fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... Super came about in July 2020. According to APRA figures, at June end Superhero Super - which was launched in May 2021 - was home to $584 million in retirement savings on behalf of 12,860 members. This will be bolstered when it takes on Slate Super's ...

What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... expect to be paid as much as $420,000 for the year, as almost all business development professionals were expected to take home more. The insights found that the typical salary for a head of distribution working in funds management in Australia was $300,000 ...

IFM urges investment in housing, hires former Dexus chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
IFM Investors is urging Australia's industry super funds to invest in housing, saying it is a "win-win" for super fund members and the nation's housing supply issues. In a new blueprint report, IFM said proposed policy settings could help create as ...

Australia home to 43 billionaires: UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
Australia has consistently produced billionaires over the last 10 years and is home to 43 of the richest people in the world, according to a new report from UBS. Australia gained two billionaires over the course of 2024 - the majority of which (77%) ...

Crypto operator to fork out millions after court ruling

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... control" and that ASIC is now playing policymaker. He said the regulatory stance taken by ASIC could risk stifling Australia's home-grown digital assets businesses and the innovation that could drive Australia's competitive advantage on the global st ...

Unemployment drops below 4%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... RBA rate cut any time soon," Chesler said. "The RBA is expecting the labour market to loosen quite a bit more as we hit the home stretch of the current tightening cycle, with the quarterly unemployment rate increasing by 40 basis points to 4.5% and remaining ...

Superannuation tax shakeup proposed by Actuaries Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... system unchanged for most retirees and still allow members to make large withdrawals at retirement for immediate needs like home renovations, replacing a car, or paying off a mortgage. Finally, the paper proposed "further simplifying the super system" ...

Millions of Aussies want episodic advice: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... needed include retirement financial security (30%), developing investment strategies (30%), managing tax planning (27%), and home buying (25%), the report noted. Of those open to seeking financial advice, over half prefer 'one-off episodic advice' rather ...