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Australian GDP growth 'steady but not solid': La Trobe

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... our view, although right now it's sitting below 1%...," Tagg said. "Consider the annual GDP growth of Australia over our top trading partners this century... given the aggregate growth patterns, you can see it is quite a distinct step down each decade." ...

AMP profit dives as advice business sale bites

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... which is driving inflows, adding that, in the superannuation and investments business, improved cashflows were supported by top-quartile returns. Regarding AMP Bank, she said there were improving trends in the second half of the year, including a return ...

Super moves: VFMC, QIC, Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Nikola Garevski has joined Victorian Funds Management Corporation as a senior equities analyst. Garevski landed at the $92 billion VFMC from AustralianSuper, where he was a senior risk analyst on an eight-month contract. Previously, he spent over four ...

PIMCO hires former Global X sales lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Kanish Chugh, former head of distribution at Global X, has scored a top sales role at PIMCO Australia. PIMCO confirmed Chugh's appointment as head of ETF sales. The hire comes eight months after he joined the asset manager as a senior vice president ...

SMSFs outperform APRA funds over five years: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... on SMSFs between 1 July 2018 and 30 July 2023 was 6.5% compared with 5.3% for APRA funds over the same period. In FY23, the top quartile SMSFs (11.6%) outperformed APRA funds (9.3%), while the bottom quartile of SMSFs underperformed, achieving maximum ...

Finance workers worry about job displacement from AI, government urged to take action

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training last month, made 21 recommendations to help the government get on top of the fast-evolving state of AI and how it is impeding the workforce. "The committee acknowledges that task automation is ...

ETF industry passes $250bn mark

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... million. Over the past 12 months the Australian ETF industry grew by 35.9% or $79.9 billion. Vanguard made up three of the top 10 ETFs by market cap with its Australian Shares Index ETF, MSCI Index International Shares ETF and the US Total Market Shares ...

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 ...

Moonfare launches in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... strategies. Moonfare's digital private equity platform plans to fill that gap by providing seamless access to globally leading top-quartile managers," he said. Singapore-based Adam Banks, who is Moonfare's head of Asia Pacific, said: "Our APAC ...

Hamilton Lane closes venture fund at $615m

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... 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 companies" and leverages Hamilton Lane's extensive platform and relationships to generate ...