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Claremont Global launches ETF range

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... look for dominant market positions, low cost to value customer propositions, an owner-managed culture, consistent earnings power, strong balance sheets and diversity in products and services," Desmond said. Claremont Global is a member of E&P Financial ...

Rest invests in agriculture fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
Rest has invested in an agriculture-focused fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Rest has allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on delivering strong returns through investment opportunities related to the food ...

SIX launches share platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
A former co-founder of Future Super has launched Sustainable Investment Exchange (SIX), a share trading platform that combines activism and investing. SIX is co-founded by Adam Verwey, a former co-founder of Future Super, and Sophie Hall, an experienced ...

Oaktree's local head of distribution resigns

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
Oaktree Capital Management's head of distribution for Australia and New Zealand has left the firm and is currently on gardening leave. Two years ago, Brett Penprase joined the US$172 billion investing powerhouse co-founded by Howard Marks with 27 ...

Gender pay gap reporting to be scrutinised

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
... men and women are represented in lower- or higher-paying roles. It can therefore be a proxy for where the concentration of power and pay is in a company. "There can be significant differences between the median and mean pay gaps, but at this stage, the ...

Vale Lang Walker

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
Sydney-based property magnate and philanthropist Lang Walker has passed away, aged 78. Walker, who alongside his father Alec formed the privately-owned property development company Walker Corporation over 50 years ago, has been remembered as a nation-builder ...

Albanese set to overhaul Stage 3 tax cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... more than this will be slapped with a 45% tax rate. The Morrison government legislated the tax cuts in 2018 when it was in power at the time. It originally proposed tax reductions for those earning $45,000 and over to take effect on 1 July 2024. It would ...

Aussies want advice from their super fund: CFS

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
... misconception that financial advice is for the wealthy because it is unaffordable," CFS Superannuation chief executive Kelly Power said. "Yet our research shows that advised and unadvised Australians largely agree that it is those who are struggling ...

Powerwrap bleeds $334m in outflows

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024
Praemium's platform dedicated to the high-net-worth segment, Powerwrap, has lost $334 million in funds under administration (FUA) after a small number of financial advisers switched advice groups. The ASX-listed firm said the exit of advisers in the ...

First trillionaire to emerge in next decade: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024
... poverty. One of the best mechanisms we have to address this is progressive taxation." Oxfam said only governments have the power to rein in such inequality. It is calling for the scrapping of the stage-three tax cuts, while implementing a progressive ...