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Market turmoil hits portfolios

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... foreign currency depreciations triggered by the global tariffs - perhaps even resuming their traditional role as a leveraged play to gold." T. Rowe Price portfolio manager of the global growth equity strategy Scott Berg said while the market reaction ...

Genium adds two staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
The boutique investment consulting and research house has made two new hires to support the continued growth of its ratings business. Simon Scott joins Genium Investment Partners as a research analyst and will help expand research ratings coverage across ...

Sue Brake joins Aware Super committee

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... experience of the Committee," he said. "In addition, their alignment to our profit-to-member culture and global awareness will play a crucial role in safeguarding and enhancing our members' interests. Brake said: "It is an honour to join Aware Super ...

Russell Investments, Reach Alts team up to expand private market access

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... institutional-grade private markets. "It's timely to open access to quality global unlisted infrastructure assets, which play a crucial role in building stable and diversified investment portfolios," Phillips said.

Fortitude Investment Partners acquires majority stake in SMSF audit firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
Fortitude Investment Partners has acquired a majority stake in self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) audit firm ASF Audits. The investment will improve ASF Audits' client experience and accelerate future growth; the primary capital investment ...

ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo is keeping all options open before the corporate watchdog is forced to intervene in the private markets, he told the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) this morning. Longo said ASIC is prepared to engage with ...

CSLR costs driven by poor advice: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) lead ombudsman, investments and advice Shail Singh has told financial advisers that poor practices are the main contributor to the soaring costs of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). "It's ...

Life insurers keep breaking their own rules: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... staff training remained the most reported response, the report said. However, it cautioned that while training will always play a role in addressing breaches, insurers must ensure they're correctly identifying the root causes and assessing whether training ...

Fink takes private markets to next level

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... Illiquidity. Complexity. That's why only certain investors are allowed in," he said. In the past 14 months, BlackRock has made a play in infrastructure and private credit and attempted to make private markets less risky and opaque. "BlackRock has ...

RBA and ASIC slam the ASX: 'Deeply disappointed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have written a damning open letter to the ASX to address their increasing concern over the management of operational risk. In a joint letter to the ASX ...