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First Sentier farewells senior portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
First Sentier Investors' high-profile small companies team has lost one of its longest-serving members. The small and mid-cap fund group led by Dawn Kanelleas has farewelled senior portfolio manager Pavlos Totsis. Totsis - along with Kanelleas and ...

CFMEU fallout stokes governance debate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... whether equal board representation governance structures continue to be in the best interests of members, with some going so far as to perceive the current model as archaic. More sympathetically, John Myers, the founder of boutique management consultancy ...

Financial services experiencing 'workforce transformation'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... topic of building culture within teams pre and post Covid. The overwhelmingly majority noted culture and collaboration are far more effective with in person touchpoints. However, despite this point, many leaders accept that the future of work is not ...

Markets melt down over 'premature' recession fears

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... about a US economic recession - mostly seen as premature - spurred warnings that this year's sizzling stock rally has gone too far," Ho said. "Not since March 2020, when markets were spooked by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, has the ASX experienced ...

FEAL names Fund Executive of the Year

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
In its 23rd year of running, the award recipient was announced at an event in Melbourne last night. Brighter Super chief executive Kate Farrar was awarded Fund Executive Association Limited's (FEAL) Fund Executive of the Year Award. Farrar was recognised ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
The fund's Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option returned a dismal -15.96% in FY24, but chief investment officer John Pearce says the growth themes remain intact, adding it's on a more solid footing than in FY21 when returns soared ...

MLC investment chief shares portfolio plans

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
MLC chief investment officer Dan Farmer has told an investment forum that while there have been times when diversifying felt like sacrificing returns, it's now being rewarded. For equity markets, a big driver of portfolio returns, Farmer said that MLC ...

Insignia Financial looks to slash redundancy entitlements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... pay increases, improved leave entitlements, and the right to work from home. However, the FSU says Insignia Financial has so far "blatantly rejected what workers are calling for," particularly on the remote work piece. ​"Their disregard toward protecting ...

Remediation professionals told to temper expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
Remediation projects winding up at major firms has created a lot of competition in the job market for wealth compliance and risk candidates, according to a recent Kaizen Recruitment report. The past financial year has seen considerable changes in the ...

Advisers shun major institutions, 500 exit: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... profession of about 8500 between 2015 and 2019. By 1 January 2019, advisers had to be registered on the Financial Adviser Register (FAR) if they wanted to avoid the transition period to upgrade their professionally accepted qualifications. "But when ...