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ART overhaul sees senior portfolio managers exit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... operations and restructure its leadership pick up pace. These departures follow the recent exits of Greg Barnes, head of public markets, and Herbert Chang, head of capital markets, whose roles have been farmed out to other executives. Elizabeth Kumaru ...

Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign wealth and public pension funds to compile its scorecard. It assesses criteria including transparency and accountability, governance structure ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... Accounting. Cooper said: "The mission of the council is to create opportunities for technology development, knowledge-sharing and public-private consultation needed to incorporate aspects of the digital economy into diversified retirement portfolios ...

Firms rebuffing AFCA determinations should be named: FAAA, professional bodies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... occasion to give effect to an AFCA determination. Along with the Chartered Accountants ANZ, CPA Australia, Institute of Public Accountants and SMSF Association, the FAAA expressed concerns that failure to "pay AFCA determinations and the resultant impact ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... operating soundly, securely and effectively," he said. "ASX is ubiquitous, you simply cannot buy and settle on the Australian public equities and futures markets without relying on ASX and its systems. The inquiry provides an opportunity for ASX to bolster ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... increasingly factoring physical climate risks into their decision making, there are several challenges to doing so, a review of public funds' experience has found. A new report from CPP Investments and thinktank OMFIF looks at how public funds are addressing ...

Super tax requires a 'holistic' review: ASA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... concerns over defined benefit pensions, which are assessed using formulas rather than actual account balances, meaning many public sector employees and politicians "will not be affected". "This creates a two-tiered system. Many of those responsible for ...

ART farewells two more executives

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... foundational to unlocking our potential," Anderson said. These departures follow the recent exits of Greg Barnes, head of public markets, and Herbert Chang, head of capital markets, whose roles have been farmed out to other executives. Amid this shake-up ...

Aussies feeling FOMO on private markets: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... as some knowledge gaps remain. Liquidity, the valuation lag, and the return cycle are the top three differences between public and private markets that investors must know." While there are alternative investment options such as evergreen funds, which ...

Telegram pump and dump schemers plead guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... four individuals formed a private group on Telegram to discuss and select penny stocks that they would then share in the public Telegram group known as 'ASX Pump and Dump Group.' The names of stocks were shared to the group nine times over a ...