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Execs face shareholder backlash over pay: Georgeson

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
The ASX300 experienced heightened shareholder opposition to executive remuneration proposals in 2024 for the second consecutive year, according to shareholder services provider Georgeson. Forty of Australia's 300 biggest listed companies received a ...

Saxo Australia to rebrand after global takeover

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... high-touch, high-quality service for self-directed retail clients," North added. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2025. Currently, more than 160 wealth managers and advisers across Africa, Europe and the UK use DMA to access ...

Australian super assets set to become second largest globally: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
Australia's superannuation assets have jumped 500% over the last 20 years and are on track to become the second-largest pension market globally by 2030, the WTW's Thinking Ahead Institute predicts. Australia's superannuation assets reached more than ...

MLC Life names chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... Queensland and previously held transformation and change roles with Telstra and BHP. The merger is expected to complete in the second half of this year.

Government to scrap advisers' approved qualifications list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... offering courses due to the lack of entrants," he said. Separately, Jones announced that the government will scrap the second stage of the adviser registration process. This stage mandated individual advisers to register annually with ASIC from 1 July ...

Hamilton Lane closes venture fund at $615m

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
Hamilton Lane has announced the final close of its first globally distributed venture vehicle, the Venture Access Fund (VAF), with the fund exceeding its target of $500 million by 23%. VAF's portfolio targets "top-performing, oversubscribed funds and ...

Moonfare launches in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
Global private equity platform Moonfare, with $5.5 billion (€3.3bn) in assets under management, has established footprints in Australia to target wholesale investors. Local wholesale and sophisticated investors now have access to Moonfare, which offers ...

Chalmers 'managing pressures' to shore up economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... 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 1980s," Chalmers said. "Every time one of these three economies ...

MLC Life recruits merger specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... Australia. The $12 billion deal - the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese insurer- should be finalised in the second half of this year. Moutsatsos brings extensive experience managing large transformation and integration programs, most recently ...

Partners Group staffer quits to join NYC firm

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... estate and emerging markets. The Wall Street firm's push into Australia attracted much attention given that it is the second US firm to hire staffers in Australia this week. Monroe Capital, the Chicago-headquartered private credit shop, has also ...