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CFS delivers 16.6% returns for growth members

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) announced impressive returns for its balanced and growth equivalent funds throughout 2024. The FirstChoice Employer Super balanced option returned 13.8% in 2024, while the FirstChoice Employer Super growth option delivered ...

Australian economy on the up in 2025: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Vanguard expects Australia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will gradually recover and increase by 2% in 2025 after experiencing its slowest growth rate in 32 years during 2024. Vanguard said this improvement will come despite the overhang of sticky inflation ...

Stamford Capital Investments launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... Capital's market intelligence and strong deal flow. Our funds sit next to what is arguably the biggest net in the ocean. At any point in time, our brokerage team is engaged on over 350 capital transactions - this puts us at the coal face of the industry," ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Investors have head into the New Year with many of the same concerns they had at the start of 2024, with interest rates and inflation to dominate once again. Last November, RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank views its settings as ...

Chalmers boasts inflation data, experts divided

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... to every household in Australia, and that's a good thing." Despite trimmed mean inflation still well above the RBA's mid-point target of 2.5%, HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham said the data was still a positive start to the year. "Our overall reading ...

AustralianSuper wins fund of the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
AustralianSuper has won the Global SWF Fund of the Year award for its leadership, growing investment activity, and significant expansion overseas. Global SWF noted that the super fund has grown from managing $21 billion for 1.2 million members since ...

MetLife to acquire PineBridge Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... designed to deliver consistent double-digit adjusted earnings per share growth, a 15-17% adjusted return on equity, a 100-basis-point reduction in its direct expense ratio target, and free cash flow of US$25 billion. MetLife said the acquisition of PineBridge ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... to manage its authorised representatives, many of which have been appointed since 2019 to operate on its behalf. At one point, Sanlam had 42 CARs and 71 authorised representatives operating under its licence, offering diverse financial services ranging ...

Traders left scrambling over ASX settlement outage

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) suffered another glitch last week that disrupted two days' worth of trades. The ASX said it detected a "technical issue" on its CHESS Batch Settlement last Friday, forcing trade settlements on December 18 ...

M&A and IPO the 'gamechangers' for 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Providing an outlook for the new year, Fidelity International portfolio manager Casey McLean said M&A and IPO activities will likely increase, noting there are a list of companies anticipated to make the foray into the public markets across the US and ...