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TAL creates consumer and growth division

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
The life insurer has appointed a general manager to lead its newly created consumer and growth team. Alexis Denby has taken on the role, where she will be responsible for TAL's direct and advised customer growth initiatives whilst ensuring its products ...

Platinum, Regal put acquisition talks to bed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
After completing due diligence, Regal Partners says it is no longer interested in acquiring Platinum Asset Management. It comes as the latter confirms its first deal under the new Platinum Partner Series initiative. In late September, a bid from Regal ...

ANZ chief to retire, external successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
Following an extensive search, ANZ has appointed a new leader as chief executive Shayne Elliot prepares to retire. ANZ said it assessed a range of external and internal candidates, with the board "spoilt for choice" in the process, ANZ chair Paul O'Sullivan ...

Australian Retirement Trust appoints new chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed a new chief risk officer that's set to start in March 2025. The new chief risk officer, Darryl Burke, was previously with Colonial First State in the same role. Burke will lead ART's risk and compliance ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
The global economy stares down "unprecedented challenges" in 2025, according to Frontier Advisors' annual secular outlook, which forecasts rising risks from unsustainable debt, geopolitical rifts, and climate inaction. The report said after spiking ...

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
Lax superannuation laws make it too easy for perpetrators of domestic violence to access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found. ...

BlackRock makes US$12bn acquisition

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
BlackRock is set to acquire credit manager HPS Investment Partners for US$12 billion, creating a US$220 billion franchise. Under the deal, the two entities will create a new private financing solutions business, to be led by HPS chief executive Scott ...

Dividends to be down in FY25: Equity Trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
Equity Trustees Asset Management's head of asset management Darren Thompson has warned that ASX200 FY25 market earnings and dividends are expected to be flat or down compared to FY24. He added that high yielding, major resource companies - such as BHP ...

Geopolitical tensions create investor opportunity: Franklin Templeton

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
Escalating geopolitical tensions around the world has made defense a critical focus for investors, according to a new paper from Franklin Templeton. These geopolitical pressures, comparable in impact to climate change, are now immediate, direct, and ...

$3m super tax faces axe, pushed to 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
The failure of the government to pass its proposed $3 million superannuation tax last week may well see the measure abandoned. The Division 296 tax could be shelved until after the next federal election, missing out on the opportunity to pass during ...