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Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... companies are confident about growth in 2025 and are pouring funds into decarbonisation - marking 2025 as an attractive entry point for green investors. The finding comes from a Capgemini report launched at Davos as the World Economic Forum kicks off. ...

Super admin providers face reckoning in 2025: Finura

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... down administration fees as much as possible - have played a major part in the trend. "But they almost have now got to a point where they have become so low that you have to question whether it's actually commercially sustainable for these organisations ...

Iress sells superannuation business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... founder and chief executive Peter Hughes said. "Increasing member engagement and improving the member experience is a focal point of our industry. The Acurity platform is well recognised as a market leader, and we look forward to building on this ensuring ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... useless as a pet rock" but does not completely write it off. "We are going to have some kind of digital currency at some point. I'm not against crypto. You know, Bitcoin itself has no intrinsic value. It's used heavily by sex traffickers, money ...

Why more women aren't in financial services

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
Financial services firms are pushing to hire more women, with only 36% of roles currently held by women in the sector, according to new data from Robert Walters. But while they want more women in their ranks, a spokesperson for Robert Walters said one ...

Partners Group promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... option of investing in one sector at a time. "Our fund does all of them and will move where it's most attractive at any point in time. Launched a year ago, we built the team through acquisition and now have started investing. It's been a huge ...

Legalsuper hunts for CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Legalsuper is looking for a new investment chief, following the resignation of Paul Murray who departed the industry fund just nine months into the job. Chief executive Luke Symons confirmed that Murray resigned from the fund on 20 December 2024 for ...

Unemployment edges up despite jobs added

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point to 4% in December. "With employment rising by 56,000 people and the number of unemployed increasing by 10,000 people, the unemployment ...

Economist's wishlist: Lower tariffs, bond yields settling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... and because the risk to growth is to the downside. Higher bond yields threaten the outlook for equities from a valuation point of view. "We expect that US 10-year yields will decline back towards 4% later this year." On global growth, Mousina said there ...

ANZ, Macquarie bring forward rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Both ANZ and Macquarie have moved their interest rate cut predictions forward to February from May following last week's inflation data. ANZ head of Australian economics Adam Boyton said the bank was expecting core inflation to drop to 3.2%, down from ...