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AMP sells advice licensees to Entireti, AZ NGA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
AMP will sell its advice licensees and support services business to Entireti and AZ NGA and offload its minority stakes in 16 individual practices. It comes as the advice business reports a net loss of $15 million. Entireti, formerly Fortnum Private ...

Macquarie AM splurges on data centre

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will splurge US$530 million on a Korean data centre company. MAM via its Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF) agreed to acquire the Hanam Data Centre, a data centre with a total capacity of 40 megawatts and a target ...

Cbus taps ex-AustralianSuper equities chief for 'critical role'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
Cbus has appointed a former AustralianSuper equities chief to serve as its head of portfolio construction. Justin Pascoe, who joined AustralianSuper as a senior portfolio manager in June 2019 before being promoted in August 2021, will take on the "critical ...

New shadow assistant treasurer's vision for advice, super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Luke Howarth has reaffirmed the opposition unreservedly supports Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR) recommendations and wouldn't go back to the drawing board, at an event hosted by the Financial Services ...

New mandates boost Clime FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024
Clime Investment Management won two mandates collectively worth $300 million, one of which came from Clearwater Portfolio Management. Clearwater Portfolio Management handed Clime $240 million to help manage the funds on behalf of Victorian financial ...

CalSTRS creates Total Fund Management division

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) has established a Total Fund Management division, according to its latest Investments Branch business plan. CalSTRS chief investment officer Scott Chan, who took on the role this month following ...

MLC investment chief shares portfolio plans

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
MLC chief investment officer Dan Farmer has told an investment forum that while there have been times when diversifying felt like sacrificing returns, it's now being rewarded. For equity markets, a big driver of portfolio returns, Farmer said that MLC ...

ANZ staff axed over treasury bond scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
ANZ has provided an update on its investigations into its Australian Markets business in relation to a 2023 bond transaction. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott said the bank had been working with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

JANA wins investment consulting mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
JANA Investment Advisers has been awarded a mandate to provide investment consulting services for separately managed accounts (SMA) aggregator Wealthtrac. The mandate, effective from August 15, will initially cover 10 of Wealthtrac's existing SMAs ...

ASIC to launch new criminal investigation team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released its final report on equity market integrity in Australia. ASIC said it will be establishing a dedicated criminal investigation team to swiftly progress insider trading investigations ...