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NEOS names retail, strategic sales leads

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... last year. He brings extensive experience in life insurance and financial advice to the role. Prior to NEOS, Leonard was national manager of operations at Affinia Financial Advisers for two years. Before that, he spent more than eight years in sales ...

CalSTRS appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... global equities portfolio. While at the university, he sat on the investment committees of the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans. Chan also served as chief investment officer for the ...

CFA Society Australia launches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
CFA Society Australia has officially launched, with the aim to giving a stronger voice to Australian CFA charterholders while raising the recognition of the CFA credential in Australia. CFA Society Australia chief executive Lisa Carroll said the transition ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... surging cost of living," H&R Block director of tax communications Mark Chapman said. "As originally designed by the Liberal/National government, the tax cuts delivered most of the benefit to those on high incomes. So, nothing at all for people earning ...

Budget 2024: Change to foreign investment rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... "We will create a front door for investors to accelerate and coordinate transformational projects, establish a domestic National Interest Account that adds discipline to investments in the national interest, and strengthen and streamline approvals - ...

Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... delivers an additional $1.9 billion in loans to help build 40,000 social and affordable homes. We have also secured the national housing agreement, which would otherwise have run out." Earlier this week, the Prime Minister convened national cabinet where ...

Budget 2024: Chalmers looks to reset aged care, NDIS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... information and access to aged care. In addition, $468.7 million will be spent to support people with disability and get the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) back on track. Of this, as announced previously, $214 million will be spent over ...

Head of institutional capital departs MA Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... the board of the Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce. Prior to his executive career, Pyke was the first Canadian national and first former professional rugby union player to join an AFL team. He played 110 games for the Sydney Swans between 2009 ...

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... taught at MIT and Harvard before joining the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he worked as a code breaker for the National Security Agency. He was dismissed for publicly opposing the Vietnam War but soon became head of the mathematics department ...

Australian Retirement Trust wraps up AvSuper merger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... Dave Woodall said onboarding AvSuper is an important step in the fund's expansion strategy. "By continuing to grow our national footprint, we're well on the way to achieving our target of $500 billion in funds under management by 2030, all whilst helping ...