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Ironbark launches global infrastructure fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
Ironbark EagleCrest Infrastructure is an open-ended, mid-market focused private markets solution and has already received backing from private wealth firms. Ironbark EagleCrest Infrastructure feeds into the offshore Eaglecrest Infrastructure Fund that ...

Ninety-seven super products fail performance test

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023
Of the 97 products to fail this year's superannuation performance test, 96 are trustee-directed products - 75% of which are issued by the same four trustees. Released this morning, the 2023 performance test marks the first time trustee-directed ...

Top global trends impacting portfolio construction

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023
... all of our portfolios are filled with incumbent businesses and incumbent industries that can all be impacted. "So, on a dollar-weighted basis, the amount of money we have at risk to technological disruption is greater than the amount of money you have ...

DB Results launches policy admin system

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023
The tech company has developed the first cloud-native, low-code policy administration system (PAS) for the life insurance sector. The regulator-approved solution aims to meet the exacting needs of the insurance sector and can be custom-designed for ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2023
... relevant guidance, which is closer to what happened with this Vanguard product." The Vanguard product (both an Australian dollar hedged and a NZ dollar hedged version are rated by RIAA) first achieved RIAA Certification in 2018 and then in 2020, at which ...

Fitch downgrades US credit rating

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... advanced, well-diversified, and high-income economy, supported by a dynamic business environment. It also observed that the US dollar is the world's preeminent reserve currency, which gives the government extraordinary financing flexibility.

New CFS platform at the cutting Edge: Quirk

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
... global leader in wealth management platforms. "FNZ deal with 100,000 advisers and manage over $2 trillion in Australian dollar assets, so partnering with such a major scale provider, we thought was critical to CFS Edges' success, because of the ongoing ...

Aware Super details new term deposit option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2023
... also outlined the tax benefits, being that interest on term deposits in the super system is taxed at a maximum of 15c per dollar, or not taxed at all for pension members. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average Australian working ...

AAC at centre of billionaire insider trading scheme

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
The British billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur and majority shareholder of Australian Agricultural Co, Joe Lewis, has been criminally charged in New York for orchestrating a "brazen insider trading scheme." Lewis, founder of investment firm Tavistock ...

Tax miners, major corporates to tackle housing shortage: CFMEU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is calling for the introduction of a $28 billion annual super profits tax to close the gap in social and affordable housing. The CFMEU commissioned Oxford Independent Economics to ...