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Colonial First State hires PE head, farewells sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Colonial First State has hired a local investment director from a global pension fund to run private equity and unlisted assets. At the same time, its head of investment sales has exited. The wealth and superannuation giant confirmed that Chloé Brayne ...

Mercer names investment solutions lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Mercer Australia has promoted one of its senior consultants to head of wealth management investment solutions in a bid to increase bench strength in that business. Rebecca Jacques takes on the new role after six years with the firm. Mercer's chief ...

Boutique investment manager hits the market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... proprietary framework, which has been refined over the past 30 years, is adept at identifying listed company wealth creators, run by exceptional management teams, across the entire industrial lifecycle spectrum," he said. Hereford, meanwhile, said the ...

GAM Investments loses local lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
Alex Zaika, the local head of GAM Investments, has resigned from his role at the Switzerland-based asset manager to join another firm. It is understood that the global asset manager is currently searching for Zaika's replacement. Zaika, who joined ...

Federal Reserve kicks off easing cycle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
The Federal Reserve elected to cut interest rates by 50 basis points overnight, its first reduction in four years. The US central bank decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to 4.75-5%, surprising many ...

Investment boutique calls time after seven years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... affiliated with Bennelong Funds Management before transitioning to an independent structure in August 2020. Since its launch it has run the Wheelhouse Global Fund. In 2021 it introduced the Wheelhouse Australian Enhanced Income Fund. Earlier this month ...

Aussie female fund manager representation lags: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Only 8% of Australia's funds management industry is run by women, lagging the global average of 12.5%, the latest Alpha Female Report finds. Citywire's annual analysis, which tracks the progress of gender parity in asset management, calculated 903 Australian ...

China to raise retirement age from 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... by three years. It follows modelling from the Chinese Academy of Social Studies that found the main state pension fund will run out of money by 2035 if nothing is done. It's estimated China's public pension bill is currently more than 5% of its ...

AI could see emerging markets flourish: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... building blocks for a turnaround are falling into place, with parallels to the point some 20 years ago that preceded a bull-run," Laijawalla said.

SMSFA, Deakin University launch courses for advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
SMSF Association, Deakin University, and AccountantsIQ have partnered to deliver two courses for financial advisers. Deakin University is offering Ethics for Financial Services (Intensive), a compulsory bridging unit with 30 CPD hours. It runs across ...