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Australian Retirement Trust delivers 11.3% in FY24

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) returned 11.3% p.a. for its High Growth option for the 2024 financial year. ART head of investment strategy Andrew Fisher told Financial Standard that equities over the last two years have been "surprisingly resilient ...

AIA Australia releases new member insurance portal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
AIA Australia has launched a new member insurance portal that enables group insurance customers to track their claims throughout the lifecycle. The portal promises real-time updates on claim statuses. It also offers features such as instant document ...

Unprecedented vulnerabilities in financial services: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
KPMG specialists say disruptive technologies, particularly generative AI, and the imperative to automate, are exposing financial services executives to unprecedented vulnerabilities. In Australia, KPMG partner Matt O'Keefe noted that heightened customer ...

Prime Financial Group adds to c-suite with new role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
Prime Financial Group has appointed James Lake to the newly created position of chief growth officer and Andrea Slingsby as independent non-executive director. Prime said both appointments are key to its next phase of growth as the group continues work ...

Most traded US stocks revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
The US share market made a comeback in May after a decline in April following moderating inflation data and weak consumer spending offered investors some optimism that interest rate cuts may be around the corner. Trading data from Selfwealth found Nvidia ...

Inflation weighing on next generation of retirees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
Generation X - the next in line to retire - is worried about running out of money, or not having enough to retire at all, according to new research by Natixis Investment Managers. The research, conducted in collaboration with CoreData Research, found ...

Global X cuts management fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
Global X ETFs will reduce the annual management fees for its Global X 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (Cboe: EBTC) and Global X 21Shares Ethereum ETF (Cboe: EETH), effective July 1. Both Australian-listed cryptocurrency products will see a reduction from 1.25% ...

GBST, Wipro join forces on holistic administration service

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
GBST has partnered with Indian technology conglomerate Wipro to deliver end-to-end administration services for superannuation funds and wealth management firms looking to move away from antiquated IT infrastructure. The collaboration combines GBST's ...

Australia's competitiveness climbs world rankings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
Stronger business and government investment, population growth and budget positions have seen Australia record its best international competitiveness ranking since 2011. The nation rose from 19th to 13th in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2024 ...

TAL appoints new chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
TAL has appointed Fiona Macgregor as its new group chief executive and managing director, effective 1 October 2024. The appointment follows the promotion of TAL's current chief executive Brett Clark to the role of chief executive and managing director ...