Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 251 - 260 of 2296 results for "Framework"

Saudi Arabia opens access for foreign investors

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... investor base while enhancing market liquidity. The announcement follows the CMA board's approval of the regulatory framework, which eliminates the concept of the Qualified Foreign Investors (QFI), thereby allowing all categories of foreign investors ...

Lazard sets up new chief investment role

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
Lazard Asset Management has created a new role of a chief investment officer and appointed Eric Van Nostrand. The US$265 billion asset manager said the newly established role will strengthen the cohesion, discipline and effectiveness of its global investment ...

Investors weigh risks amid Venezuelan crisis

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
Oil prices have seen volatility globally after the US bombed Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, estimated at more than 300 billion barrels, alongside substantial deposits of gold ...

FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... industry's focus on governance, accountability, and operational resilience. APRA's new CPS 230 operational resilience framework, which took effect in July of this year, is pushing funds to reassess their management of third-party risk. CPS 230 ...

Diversa hit with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... diligence undertaken in relation to new investment options; and adequacy of Diversa's investment monitoring and reporting framework. "APRA requires assurance, with appropriate oversight by an independent expert, that Diversa's investment governance framework ...

Productivity Commission makes 47 recommendations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... intervention. It suggested that investing $1.5 billion over the first five years of a proposed National Prevention Investment Framework could return savings to government of around $2.7 billion 10 years after the initial investment. "Governments can ...

Drummond Capital broadens access to private markets offering

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
... menu with a minimum investment of $25,000. Drummond Capital Partners said the launch is backed by a "strong supporting" framework, with education, suitability, and portfolio construction in an announcement on the social media platform LinkedIn. "We're ...

Frontier recruits operating chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
Frontier Advisors has appointed a senior executive to oversee its expanded operations following its absorption of a 15-strong investment team from State Super. Louise Hulley will join Frontier as its first chief operations officer. The appointment follows ...

Digital asset firm names investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
Vector Capital Management has created a new chief investment role as it continues its push to bridge traditional and digital finance for high-net-worth and institutional clients. The Melbourne-based digital asset specialist has appointed William Fong ...

Netwealth to spend $101m compensating First Guardian victims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... court enforceable undertaking from NSS, saying it has demonstrated material weaknesses in its investment governance framework and practices. A review led APRA to hold concerns relating to Netwealth's oversight, knowledge and due diligence of new ...