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Insight Investment names chief executive

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... market and strategic initiatives. He also held various board positions across the asset management and insurance sector. Insight Investment considers Srivastava as an "exceptionally well-suited" successor of the retiring chief. Commenting on his appointment ...

February rate cut unlikely after inflation data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.3% in the 12 months to November 2024, up from a 2.1% rise in the 12 months to October, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The biggest jumps in prices were in food and non-alcoholic ...

What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Mergers, corporate fund closures and executive moves were the major motifs for Financial Standard readers this year. Unsurprisingly, further consolidation in the superannuation sector was a major driver of audience interest this year with a number of ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Two of Australia's former top executives at the forefront of change have become highly influential figures on sovereign wealth fund boards. Sue Brake, former Future Fund investment chief and adviser to Singapore's central bank has chosen a second ...

IFM adds ex-CIO to equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... quantitative equities team. There he will be responsible for the daily portfolio construction, implementation and factor insight across the quantitative equity team's factor-based and sustainable investing strategies. McIntosh has over 25 years' ...

Treasury flags $23bn in CGT benefits

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Treasury has released its most recent Tax Expenditures and Insights Statement, which shows the government is bracing for a spike in Australians claiming investment tax breaks. The statement flagged those claiming capital gains tax (CGT) breaks in the ...

AI can improve super fund value chain: CFA Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... Charles Wu said the aim of Vision is to help the fund be more resource efficient and at the same time gain relevant economic insight. The RL tool is trained each month on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) using structured market data, and the calculated ...

Chalmers unveils new-look RBA boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
Treasury has appointed two new members to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy board as well as announcing who will take on roles on the governance board. This comes after a review of the RBA suggested splitting to board in two ...

Productivity Commission tasked with five new inquiries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
The Productivity Commission has been tasked with five new inquiries focused on identifying ways to materially boost Australia's productivity. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the aim of the inquiries is to lift incomes, standards of living and create more ...

QIC backs analytics platform with $2m investment

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
QIC Ventures has pledged $2 million in seed round funding to Accoil Analytics, a product engagement analytics platform for B2B companies. Accoil provides services to collect and organise customer behaviours to help companies better understand their ...