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Fitch downgrades US credit rating

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
Fitch has downgraded the US's credit rating to AA+ from AAA, citing fiscal deterioration, a growing government debt burden, and an erosion of governance that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs. "Over the next decade, higher interest rates ...

New chief executive for retail super fund, platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
... Hegerty oversaw the rebrand of AMG Universal Super to AMG Super. AMG Universal Super was launched in 2000 as a joint initiative between DDH Graham and Pension Investments. AMG Super's MySuper was one of many super products that underperformed for ...

AustralianSuper grows global team with numerous hires

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
AustralianSuper has bolstered its team with senior appointments in the UK, recruiting talent from J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, and Macquarie Group. AustralianSuper appointed John Normand as head of investment strategy for Europe; Sujay Shah has taken on ...

Insignia Financial plans advice business transformation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023
The wealth group will consolidate its self-employed licensees under one brand, to be owned by the advisers via a new equity model. It has also confirmed it will divest most of its holding in Godfrey Pembroke and is looking to sell Millennium3. Insignia ...

BTR may create generation of tenants: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023
The build-to-rent (BTR) model is attractive for several reasons, including the familiarity and comfort such investments offer. But does it align with the great Aussie dream? In the latest episode of the Financial Standard podcast, HOPE Housing chief ...

Spaceship secures $6m, plans new offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
With stop orders revoked, Spaceship is back in business and planning the launch of a new investment service, buoyed by an additional $6 million in funding. The extra cash comes from its two major shareholders, Mike Cannon-Brookes' family office ...

Hamilton Lane targets sustained growth with revamped leadership

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
Hamilton Lane has revealed a series of senior leadership changes as part of its strategic positioning for sustained global expansion. The firm's current managing director and the head of direct equity investments Jeffrey Armbrister has been appointed ...

Less than two weeks to nominate: Power50

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
With 130 nominations and counting, there is less than two weeks left to nominate the most influential financial adviser in Australia for Financial Standard 's annual Power50 list. Thus far, almost 118 financial advisers from all types of specialisations ...

Trustees lack urgency, strategy on RIC: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
A joint regulatory review finds that superannuation funds are shrugging off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and are failing to integrate this mandate into their business plans. One year since the Retirement Income Covenant took ...

ASIC to host CHESS replacement roundtable

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
... joined by ASIC commissioner Danielle Press and incoming Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock. ASIC's initiative follows longstanding industry concerns over the adequacy of ASX's stakeholder engagement and governance, including concern ...