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Employees will quit on full return-to-office orders: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... start of the year, Robert Walters Australia and New Zealand Shay Peters said that a growing number of employers are urging staff to come into the office. "We have even seen some employers starting to mandate five days in the office, but I think this ...

abrdn global chief executive steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024
... abrdn overhauled its local business, terminating five funds in a bid to consolidate its operations followed by key senior staff such as chief executive and managing director of Australia Brett Jolie leaving. It currently operates institutional strategies ...

RBA hints another rate rise could be on the cards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... would come down, it was too early to say it would be a given without waiting for more data. "Judgements underpinning the staff forecasts risked being overly optimistic about the forces that would drive down inflation, leaving the balance of risks tilted ...

Financial services firms concerned about attracting staff

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... those in the finance and accounting industries were the most worried, with 74% concerned about their ability to attract staff. "There is currently a duality in the employment market. On one side the labour market is slightly softening with more candidates ...

Another corporate fund bites the dust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... of the funds that use the Towers Watson RSE close or transfer elsewhere, including the Oracle Superannuation Plan, Linfox Staff Superannuation Fund, and Heidelberg Australia Superannuation Fund. It also terminated its own Towers Watson Superannuation ...

Seven fund managers scoop up First Sentier mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
Colonial First State (CFS) flags it will appoint seven new managers to take over several mandates that will be vacated by First Sentier Investments (FSI) following the shock closure of four local investment teams. CFS has said it has been "actively ...

CalSTRS appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... "financial expertise" and "institutional investment experience" in directing a growing investments branch of more than 225 staff, continuing to contribute to the CalSTRS executive leadership team. During his tenure as deputy, Chan has been involved in ...

Poor gender diversity not a 'women's problem': Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... diversity, VFMC ended up with not only with a gender diverse team, it also has a workforce that is ethnically diverse with staff speaking at least 10 different languages. "We've got people from amazingly different backgrounds, because we became a ...

ANZ confirms ASIC investigation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... spoke to the AFR claimed the AOFM became concerned about the way in which some of its debt had been sold and believed ANZ staff involved in the transactions may have been acting inappropriately. This marks the second time in a decade ANZ's fixed income ...

UniSuper outage continues, no cause identified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... last Friday that the outage is the result of an issue with third-party provider Google Cloud, and the fund had call centre staff work over the weekend to ensure it could still process member requests and answer queries. Those additional resources will ...