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Chalmers 'managing pressures' to shore up economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... the Middle East," he said. "The fourth economy is about how we make Australia an island of opportunity and prosperity in a sea of uncertainty." Chalmers said the government was focused on modernising the economy and managing those pressures. "We see ...

Insignia exec appointed local chief of MUFG Retirement Solutions

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
A former Insignia Financial exec has taken up a leadership role at MUFG Retirement Solutions following the retirement of chief executive Dee McGrath. The firm appointed Frank Lombardo to a newly created role of chief executive for its Australia and ...

One more vote needed for $3m super tax

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
Despite being dropped from the Senate program today, the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions Bill could soon be a reality, with the government needing to secure just one more supporter. The Bill was supposed to be debated in the Senate today ...

Northern Trust scores mandate for $32bn infra business

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
Northern Trust has become a global private capital administration partner of Igneo Infrastructure Partners, providing asset servicing solutions to the Australia-based infrastructure firm. The announcement comes shortly after the mandate expansion of ...

Future Fund reaches value of $237.9bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... million in payments to support various policy initiatives including medical research, the work of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and drought and disaster resilience." Arndt said it was a strong result which reflected the work the fund had been ...

TenCap hedge fund eyes $3bn AUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
Jun Bei Liu is ambitiously setting her sights on doubling the size of her hedge fund to $3 billion as it launches under a new outfit, TenCap. On February 1, the Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund became the TenCap Alpha Plus Fund following Liu's separation ...

ASX taps Westpac NZ chief risk officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has found a new chief risk officer, hiring from across the Tasman Sea. Westpac New Zealand chief risk officer Dirk McLiesh will join the ASX on March 3 following the retirement of Hamish Treleaven in September ...

Quant fund hires from JP Morgan

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Alternative fund manager East Coast Capital Management has snared a JP Morgan investment lead as its chief executive. Haslinger is tasked with growing the Sydney-based systematic fund manager's assets under management, focusing on wholesale and ...

Quant fund taps new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
The former co-head of equity capital markets at J.P. Morgan has been appointed chief executive of boutique quantitative fund manager East Coast Capital Management (ECCM). Simone Haslinger, the new chief executive, left J.P. Morgan last October after ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Mayhem erupted on Wall Street on Monday (local time) after Chinese-owned DeepSeek burst onto the artificial intelligence (AI) scene, wiping $1 trillion off chip maker Nvidia. AustralianSuper holds around $2 billion of Nvidia shares in its balanced option ...