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Cost cutting returns Bravura to profit

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... resilience, determination and their ongoing commitment to deliver excellence and client-focused outcomes in a change-heavy environment." In early August, Fidelity International entered into an agreement to use and develop Bravura's Sonata software, paying ...

BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas back carbon credits fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
The ASX-listed companies have poured $80 million into a new Australian carbon credits fund from Silva Capital. The Silva Carbon Origination Fund is one of the first funds in Australia to invest in large-scale, high-integrity Australian Carbon Credit ...

Financial services experiencing 'workforce transformation'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
The financial services industry is undergoing a workforce transformation due to shifting demographics, according to a new whitepaper by Profusion Group. The whitepaper, Adapting to a Changing Workforce, said organisations are adapting to emerging leaders ...

Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... including serving as NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation from 2017 to 2019, NSW Minister for Energy and Environment from 2019 to 2023, NSW Treasurer from 2021 to 2023 and Deputy Leader of the NSW Liberal Party from August 2022. Wollemi ...

Iress snags Insignia Financial executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... transformational change within the wealth management industry, with considerable experience in the operating and risk environment within superannuation. "He brings extensive experience in designing and delivering market-leading superannuation offerings ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... alongside Nest, meeting our high bar for responsible investing - they've demonstrated they want to be good stewards of the environment and the forests, and the communities around the forests. "We believe the importance of preserving natural capital will ...

Former wealth management chief ousted from financial services

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... built on trust and integrity" to achieve superior outcomes in a challenging and uncertain economic and investment environment.

ASIC proposes cash equity clearing and settlement rules

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... effective market functioning. "We consider these proposed rules as foundational requirements to establish a regulatory environment that is open to and facilitates competition emerging in the clearing and settlement of cash equities," the paper said. ...

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 ...

QIC replaces real estate managing director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024
... said. "Michael and the team steered the portfolio through the destabilising impacts of COVID-19 and the complex market environment in the years following the pandemic. He also led a number of significant redevelopments at our assets in line with evolving ...