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Billionaire receives death penalty for embezzlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
A Vietnamese billionaire property developer has been sentenced to death for embezzling US$12.5 billion - the country's largest case of financial fraud, several reports show. The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City yesterday handed down the death ...

James Mawhinney arrested as Mayfair 101 saga rolls on

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... Magistrates Court yesterday and is due to reappear on June 28. As a condition of his bail, Mawhinney is not allowed to leave the country. According to ASIC, Mawhinney claimed IPO Wealth Group owned Poveglia S.R.L and Retta S.R.L. In a statement published ...

ETF market to soar 30%: State Street

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... tipped to rise 30% in 2024, buoyed by passive equity and fixed income products, State Street predicts. Tim Helyar, the country head for Australia at State Street, said the forecast is based on discussions with ETF issuers and the fact that there are ...

NZ Super Fund chief investment officer departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... - sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders - sums up the importance of the fund to the country."

Aware Super chair named governor-general

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... be five years. "On behalf of the government and the people of Australia I thank General Hurley for his service to our country and convey our deep respect for the outstanding way he discharged his duties as governor-general," Prime Minister Albanese said. ...

Infrastructure a foundational portfolio asset class: IFM Investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... portfolio and 4.2% of overall assets. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest asset owner in the country and the world's largest pension fund, started investing in infrastructure a decade ago through a co-investment with OMERS. ...

Indigenous communities reunited with $25m in lost super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... services in 2023. This was up from 1600 the year before. It also increased the number of organisations trained through its On Country program - which distributed culturally appropriate financial literacy resources - to 277, up from eight in 2022. "We ...

BlackRock's Fink signals a tough road ahead for future retirees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... obviously a wonderful thing. We should want more people to live more years. But we can't overlook the massive impact on the country's retirement system," he said. It's not just that more people are retiring in America; it's also that their retirements ...

Jo Townsend named chief executive of NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... - sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders - sums up the importance of the Fund to the country." Townsend will take up her new role in April 2024; Paula Steed will continue as acting chief executive until then. The incoming ...

T. Rowe Price launches bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... Price's seventh Australian unit trust for wholesale and institutional investors. T. Rowe Price head of distribution and country head for Australia and New Zealand Darren Hall said over many years, much of the return from bond markets has been made by ...