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

Search Results

Showing 11 - 20 of 459 results for "AST"

Acenda announces two C-suite appointments

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
Acenda has expanded its executive team with the appointments of a chief growth officer and chief product officer. Current chief executive of individual business for Acenda, Gerard Kerr, was named chief growth officer, while Dean Mulheron will step into ...

Macquarie AM to acquire Last Mile Infrastructure and Energy Assets Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has announced it will up its stake in Last Mile Infrastructure by 50%, buying out Municipal and General (M&G) infrastructure private equity investment arm Infracapital. The deal will make MAM-managed funds the complete ...

HMC Capital wholesale head exits for COO position

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
HMC Capital's head of wholesale distribution has departed after 18 months to join an equities investment manager. Tim Koroknay has left David Di Pilla's ASX-listed alternatives firm to take up the role of operating chief at the staff-owned WaveStone ...

CFS, Stockspot deliver double-digit returns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
Colonial First State (CFS) and Stockspot have both delivered double-digit returns to members in their highest-performing options. For CFS, the FirstChoice Employer Super growth fund (MySuper Lifestage 1975-79) delivered an 11.6% return, while the FirstChoice ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
Latest research by World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has found that top technology companies including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft lack in mobilising low-carbon investments through capital expenditure and R&D, even though they have an emissions ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

PPS Mutual appoints head of distribution

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
PPS Mutual has appointed a new head of distribution, succeeding Brian Pillemer who is retiring. Daniel Waller takes on the role after finishing up a career break to look after his family. Waller was previously the general manager of business partnerships ...

Apostle partners with Qtron Investments

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
Apostle Funds Management (Apostle) has partnered with US-based quantitative investment manager Qtron Investments (Qtron) to provide Australian wholesale and institutional investors access to its global equity strategies. The partnership marks the first ...

Acenda confirms leadership team

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
Acenda Group has assembled its leadership team, to be effective upon completion of the merger between MLC Life and Resolution Life Australasia at the end of the month. Sean McCormack has been appointed group chief commercial officer. He will oversee ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
The retirement savings of thousands of Australians have been lost in the First Guardian and Shield failures and, while investigations are ongoing, the blame for their collapse and the misconduct that led to it is being passed around like a football ...