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Proxy advisors have 'undue influence': Jamie Dimon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... and to address the perception of asset managers' reliance on third-party advisor voting recommendations. The investment banking giant's enhancements will include "more portfolio manager participation in proxy committee decision making" and "diminished ...

Heartland finally gets regulatory approval for Challenger Bank acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... of both reverse mortgages and livestock finance in Australia." Challenger announced it was acquiring Catholic Super's banking business in December 2021 for $35 million after Catholic Super partnered with Equipsuper under an extended public offer in 2019. ...

AustralianSuper hires data strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... Business Administration degree program. His last executive role was at ANZ, where he ran data and analytics for the business banking unit. AustralianSuper also made two other hires recently. Also arriving at the nation's largest fund is John Carver ...

Mercer Super recruits growth lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... for corporate super clients, their employees and associated licensees and advisers." Raynes spent 16 years with the US banking giant, with his time evenly split between looking after J.P. Morgan's top-tier institutional investors and running a debt ...

Investment managers embracing AI: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... significant by 83% of managers. While healthcare (72%), financial services and wealth management (70%), legal services (66%), banking (64%), and insurance (61%) are the next-most-cited areas of opportunity for value creation. Managers currently using ...

Indigenous communities reunited with $25m in lost super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... initiative and Financial Wellness Week highlights both the challenges Indigenous communities encounter in accessing super and banking services, as well as the significant opportunity to offer improved assistance," First Nations Foundation chief executive ...

Bitcoin investing is on the rise, but more regulation is needed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... Zeng said widespread crypto adoption is an inevitability and as such more regulation is required. Enhanced protection of banking and payments infrastructure for crypto companies and encouraging banks to adopt on-chain monitoring of transactions are part ...

Threats outside the Australian financial system build: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... to financial stability posed by the non-bank financial intermediaries sector are relatively contained. "The Australian banking system could manage an unexpectedly large deterioration in economic conditions as overall capital levels are high and lending ...

ART adds heavyweights to board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... for their role in helping make the merger a reality," he said. Also, former Future Fund chief executive and investment banking and listed company senior executive Mark Burgess has been appointed chair of ART's investment committee as part of the ...

Financial services class actions surge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... actions targeting the financial services sector escalated significantly in 2023. According to a report from Allens, the banking and financial services sector was the second biggest target for class actions in 2023, accounting for 22% of all filings. ...