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Islamic finance industry association established

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
The Islamic Finance and Investments Association (IFIA) will work to further Australia's nascent Islamic banking, finance and investments sector and Shariah compliant standards. Launched today, the IFIA is led by chief executive Chaaban Omran, the former ...

BlackRock hires Housing Australia treasury chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
BlackRock's new head of fixed-income and credit product strategy has returned to funds management after taking on key roles at Housing Australia, New South Wales Treasury, and TCorp. Katherine Palmer brings over 12 years of government balance sheet ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... job for them when they come across to us," he told Financial Standard. "They are one of the old traditional funds, but the world is unfortunately moving very rapidly in this space, and the pressures of progress, regulation, growth, moving into advice ...

Australian investors loyal to wealth managers - until they're not

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
Australian investors show a greater willingness to stay with their wealth provider than their global counterparts, according to the 2025 EY Global Wealth Research Report. However, despite this relative loyalty, more than one in five investors still ...

Rest lands new chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... million members, many of whom are decades from retirement. Investing with such a long-term horizon and thinking about the world they will retire into is fundamental to our approach," Doyle said. "We aspire to grow our membership and funds under management ...

MA Financial eyes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... the "next evolution" in private credit. "The US middle market presents a compelling opportunity to deploy capital to real world economy businesses while earning strong risk-adjusted returns and benefiting from robust lender protections that are foundational ...

Nest drops $930m into new IFM Investors fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... Nest's investment strategy. Seeding this global infrastructure debt fund provides our members with access to diversified, world-class investment opportunities, and investments back in their communities and the infrastructure they use," she said. "This ...

Stockbroking faces 'perception problem'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... starkly different, and encouraging more women into the industry would help. "Not only is there a perception out there in the world, but there's a perception in our businesses today, and that suggests that actually there's an issue with culture ...

UniSuper lifts fund manager investment to $100m

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... for UniSuper given our heritage, and an excellent opportunity for our members to participate in the commercialisation of world leading research and technology coming out of Australian universities and research institutions," he said. Uniseed chief executive ...

PGIM Real Estate partners up on $145m deal for logistics asset

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... Intermodal Terminal. The partnership marks the first time PGIM Real Estate, which has US$206 billion in assets, making it the world's third-largest real estate investment manager, has teamed up with Cadence. The property, which will be acquired from ...