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Local family office backs new venture to invest in climate tech

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... Murray said just as the internet and mobile communications were "the two big tectonic investment plates" that emerged this century, AI and the energy transition are likely to be the two that will define the coming decade. "When you invest in PE, enterprises ...

Viola Private Wealth appoints family office wealth adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... Angus Mann, has a 17-year career in financial services, most recently at Mutual Trust, which was established nearly a century ago to manage the affairs of the Baillieu family office and expanded in 2017 to include the Myer Family Company. At Mutual Trust ...

Chalmers 'managing pressures' to shore up economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... "Every four decades or so from the 1900s we have transformed our economy. From largely agrarian at the start of the 20th century. To one that was industrial and protected after the Second World War. And then unshackled and opened up to the world in the ...

SG Hiscock appoints head of research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... to join Quilla Consulting as head of strategic partnerships. Prior to joining SG Hiscock, McKibbin worked at American Century Investments for over five years, most recently as the head of wholesale, Australia. He joined American Century from State Street ...

MetLife to acquire PineBridge Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... US$603 billion asset management arm of insurance giant MetLife, is set to acquire PineBridge Investments from Pacific Century Group in a deal valued up to US$1.2 billion. The deal comprises US$800 million in cash at closing, slated for 2025, along with ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... more challenging it becomes to achieve 'net zero' by 2050. "The Paris Agreement to limit the temperature increase in this century to two degrees, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees, is increasingly unlikely," the report said. ...

US election to add to inflation woes: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... potential outcome of the election after they had been bracing for a win by former President Trump," Allen said. American Century Investments research found that US stocks have historically averaged positive returns regardless of election outcomes. In ...

SMSF Association announces board director changes

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... advisory Brett Griffiths and Matrix Norwest partner and general manager Lachlan Sue to the board. The trio bring over half a century of self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) experience collectively. SMSFA chair Scott Hay-Bartlem said: "Brett, Meg and ...

Aussie female fund manager representation lags: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... consistently outperformed. They include Allianz Global Investors' Corrina (Hui Chung) Xiao, TIAA-CREF' Pei Chen, American Century Investment Management's Jackie Wagner, 1919 Funds' Aimee M. Eudy, and Royal London Asset Management's Paola Binns.

Investors brace for turbulence as Biden backs out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... market turbulence in the US after President Joe Biden pulled out of the race for President against Donald Trump. American Century chief investment officer Rich Weiss said Biden's decision to withdraw as the Democratic candidate puts the US into "unchartered ...