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

Search Results

Showing 271 - 280 of 5923 results for "Second"

Betashares gearing up to expand Wealth Builder product suite

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... said the Wealth Builder ETFs have received "strong interest," and that the firm is planning to expand the range over the second half of 2025. "We've had significant adviser and investor demand for a Wealth Builder ETF that provides broad exposure to ...

Australia's largest real estate fundie pulls ahead of the pack

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... Among the next biggest players, the pecking order wobbled as $50 billion Lendlease knocked off $42 billion Dexus to nab second place. The GPT Group ranked fourth with $34 billion in AUM, while Mirvac entered the top five with its $25 billion. There was ...

Life insurer chief executives step down, successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... to regulatory approvals of the merger between Acenda and Resolution Life Australia, which is expected to complete in the second half of the year. Griffin and Tez, who currently head up Acenda and Resolution Life respectively, will remain with the company ...

Global X scales higher on the ETF issuer podium

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... ETFs. The firm, which is owned by Mirae Asset Financial Group, is also charging forward with plans for more launches in the second half of the year, targeting lower-cost core exposures that investors use as portfolio building blocks. Financial Standard ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... many regions. Market participants had been pricing in rate cuts from central banks including the Federal Reserve in the second half of the year. That is now in question," Green said. "A sustained surge in oil makes rate cuts very difficult to justify. ...

Acenda Group assembles board of directors

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... Life's acquisition of Resolution Life in December 2024. On completion of this transaction, which is expected to occur in the second half of 2025, Resolution Life Australasia and Acenda will merge to form the Acenda Group. Dubé and Stephen are current ...

ART overhaul sees senior portfolio managers exit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... overhaul has led to the departure of two senior portfolio managers. Ondre Ozer is set to leave ART as the country's second-largest superannuation fund moves to disband its investment resilience and planning division, of which he was a part. Ozer's ...

Select stocks in charge of their own destiny: Aoris

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... L'Oreal and, despite its global popularity, the company struggled to grow its footprint in the China market. "China's the second largest beauty market in the world after the US... it's been an important growth for L'Oreal; they've operated there for ...

Australian wealth increases despite variable global growth: UBS

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... America and mainland China, which occupied more than half of the entire personal wealth in the study. Australia remains in second position for median wealth, representing a more equal spread of wealth than comparable nations like the UK, New Zealand ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... latest findings, global network the Group of Boutique Asset Managers (GBAM) chair Tim Warrington said: "This is now the second academic, peer-reviewed study in recent years confirming what many investors already know: boutiques can deliver a premium ...