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Challenger posts mixed Q3 FY25 result

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... executive Nick Hamilton said in the quarter Challenger "maintained momentum" in making significant progress delivering new technology while broadening its customer footprint. "Challenger saw continued sales growth across domestic lifetime annuities and ...

New government must prioritise payday super: SMC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... Payments Platform (NPP) banking system to enable a wholesale migration to data-rich real-time payments continues, this technology is currently immature and out of scope of the payday super policy, reliance on its completion ahead of the July 2026 deadline ...

Apex awarded $2.3bn fund admin mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... transaction processing and improved reporting tools." The move also provides the credit manager access to "scalable" technology to support its continued growth and evolving product suite, Apex said. Commenting, Apex Group business development director ...

Data centres 'major growth sector' for Australia: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
Australia is only second to the US as a top data centre investment location having deployed $6.7 billion in capital in 2024, according to a new report from Knight Frank. The Global Data Centres Report projected that the market would hit $6.6 trillion ...

GQG rejigs allocations amid tariff pain

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
GQG has slashed its consumer discretionary and information technology holdings as it repositions for the "extraordinary market volatility" after US tariffs were rolled out last week. GQG said it continues to reposition portfolios with "the aim of achieving ...

Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
Perpetual Corporate Trust will begin operating a digital marketplace offering debt instruments, kicking off with wholesale term deposits. The Corporate Trust business has been granted a market license in Australia enabling it develop a fully electronic ...

CA ANZ launches AI fluency certificate for finance professionals

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... training initiatives CA ANZ is creating to empower our members and finance professionals to embrace Gen AI. This critical technology is helping augment their key skills, including problem-solving, critical thinking, adaptive mindset, and ethical oversight," ...

Apex wins $7bn super admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... operating officer for superannuation. Apex Super partnered with Novigi last year to beef up its superannuation data and technology services. It also received $1.6 billion from Carlyle Group and Goldman Sachs to execute its growth strategy. Diversa chief ...

Pendal's Blayney lands at HESTA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... the strategic asset allocation and risk budgeting process. As for the second recruit, Catherall will report to senior technology and digital strategist Peter Lawrence. With over 20 years working in financial services, Catherall brings extensive expertise ...

The super fund scouring the dark web to protect members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... Daminda Kumara told Financial Standard that the dark web data spike took off after the pandemic, likely due to greater technology reliance by organisations, which criminals were quick to exploit. While not a unique problem to superannuation, Kumara mooted ...