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APRA warns entities on adequacy of backup systems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
APRA has reminded its regulated entities of the need to remain vigilant when it comes to cyber resilience, identifying the use of data backups as a weak spot. In a letter to all APRA-regulated entities, the regulator highlighted areas of weakness that ...

Brighter Super seeks fund managers for $500m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... investment sits across Sunshine Coast Airport and the Central Queensland Livestock Exchange. Brighter Super's stake in the Cooper's Gap Wind Farm in the Western Downs and South Burnett underpins goals to help with the energy transition. An allocation ...

EQT Mid-Market Growth Fund exceeds target

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... 2024. Despite this, only 9% of global capital went to Asia-focused funds in 2023. The MMG strategy aims to bridge this funding gap. MMG extends EQT Private Capital Asia's large-cap buyout strategy, focusing on mid-market control buyouts across Asia. ...

Family offices up active management, eye generative AI: UBS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... with an average net worth of US$2.6 billion and covering over US$600 billion in wealth, said this trend comes amid a widening gap in stock performance. "Amid rapid technological change, shifting rate expectations and uneven growth, the increased dispersion ...

Financial services workers eye earlier retirement

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... 2004-05," ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said. "On average, men intend to retire slightly later than women, but this gap is closing. In 2022-23, there was around half a year difference between men and women, compared to a year difference ...

Principal launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... Todd Everett said. "Constraints in traditional bank funding have opened the door for private investors to fill the financing gap. This capability will allow investors to access an opportunity set that offers defensive cash flows, lower default risk ...

COVID helped to reduce inequality: Productivity Commission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... that the share of women at the top of the income distribution had increased. "We are seeing some improvements in the income gap between men and women consistent with an increase in women's workforce participation and a declining gender pay gap," de Fontenay ...

Poor gender diversity not a 'women's problem': Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... investment team is 44% female, while the entire organisation boasts a 50% gender balance. Moreover, VFMC decreased its gender pay gap from 26% to 16% in a short space of time. This was made possible by its leaders making a concerted effort to be deliberate ...

The rising role and risks of generative AI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... and governance of AI to meet market expectations and build trust, he said. However, "there's probably only about a 5% gap here for actual new legislation," he said.

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... "It's a watershed reform that will powerfully strengthen retirement savings for Australian mums and help to narrow the gender gap at retirement." Wages boost for feminised industries Schubert said the anticipated pay rises for highly feminised industries ...