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Technology optimises family office performance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
With the drastic rise in the number of family offices setting up shop in Australia in recent years, their reliance on technology to optimise operations and performance has also become evident, new research from KPMG found. The 2025 Australian Family ...

Acenda names inaugural chair

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
MLC Life Insurance has announced who will chair the insurer when it becomes Acenda. MLC Life Insurance, soon becoming Acenda through the merger with Resolution Life Australia, has appointed Craig Dunn to the position and will take effect upon the completion ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
Mohamed El-Erian, who was chief executive of Harvard's endowment and PIMCO, published The Only Game in Town in 2016, presenting central banks as the key driver of the economic agenda. But now it's governments in the driver's seat, NSW Treasury Corporation ...

AZ NGA positions for growth with key appointment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
Former Fitzpatricks Financial Group chief executive Jodie Blackledge is joining the leadership team of AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA). Blackledge has been appointed group chief financial officer at AZ NGA, reporting to group chief executive Paul ...

Super fund investment in US to skyrocket

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
Australian super funds are expected to pump huge amounts of money into the US over the coming decade, according to a report from Mandala, in conjunction with Super Members Council and IFM Investors. The Going Global report said Australians' superannuation ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
MLC chief investment officer Dan Farmer said MLC is open to the possibility of investing in bitcoin in the future, but now is not the right time. "Like many institutional investors, we remain in the 'not now', rather than 'not ever' to bitcoin camp," ...

Superannuation powerbrokers bound for US investment summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Superannuation, investment management, and banking leaders will descend on Washington DC and New York next week to showcase a super system poised to channel hundreds of billions into the US over the next decade. In a statement, representatives of super ...

Alpencrest ramps up expansion, signs Aussie affiliate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Alpencrest Capital, a funds management incubator focused on distribution, has signed up its fifth affiliate and expects to come to market with three unit trusts in five months' time. Read Price and Camilla Love set up Alpencrest 18 months ago and officially ...

SMSF sector continues to grow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) traded more over the past year and the value of their holdings increased by 8.8%, according to the AUSIEX SMSF Under Advice report. The number of newly established SMSF trading accounts on the AUSIEX platform - across ...

Next decade could bring back the conservative portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) chief economist Brian Parker told the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum that investors should be wary of the coming decade, with more volatility expected. "The last 10 to 20 years, we have seen a rising tide ...