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Coast Advice teams up with New York private investment firm

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
Coastal Advice Group has formed a long-term partnership with a New York-based private investment firm that provides growth capital, management resources, and strategic advice. The Australian financial services firm, which has 15 advisers and 2500 clients ...

The regulatory pendulum has swung too far: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Blake Briggs has said the regulatory pendulum for the superannuation, funds management, and financial advice sectors has swung too far over the last decade under successive governments. It's time for ...

Lendlease makes $235m divestment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
Lendlease has entered into a binding agreement with Sojitz Corporation, a diversified Japanese trading company, for the sale of Capella Capital for a consideration of $235 million. The sale adds to the $1.9 billion of announced capital recycling initiatives ...

VFMC wraps up leadership changes

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has fine-tuned its absolute returns team following an overhaul of the investment function late last year. The absolute returns team manages private credit and hedge fund exposures within client portfolios. ...

Quant fund hires from JP Morgan

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Alternative fund manager East Coast Capital Management has snared a JP Morgan investment lead as its chief executive. Haslinger is tasked with growing the Sydney-based systematic fund manager's assets under management, focusing on wholesale and ...

Financial services minister Stephen Jones to retire from politics

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Labor frontbencher, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones is retiring from politics and will not contest the upcoming federal election. Jones spent 15 years as the member for Whitlam - covering Illawarra and the Southern ...

ASIC calls out super trustees over 'weak' anti-scam practices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has written to superannuation trustees urging them to strengthen anti-scam practices, or risk exposing their members to harm. The open letter, signed by ASIC commissioner Simone Constant, outlined ...

Quant fund taps new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
The former co-head of equity capital markets at J.P. Morgan has been appointed chief executive of boutique quantitative fund manager East Coast Capital Management (ECCM). Simone Haslinger, the new chief executive, left J.P. Morgan last October after ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Mayhem erupted on Wall Street on Monday (local time) after Chinese-owned DeepSeek burst onto the artificial intelligence (AI) scene, wiping $1 trillion off chip maker Nvidia. AustralianSuper holds around $2 billion of Nvidia shares in its balanced option ...

Binance Labs becomes a family office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
Binance Labs has transformed into a family office known as YZi Labs in a bid to expand its investment focus and step away from blockchain-focused investments. Binance Labs, which was the venture capital arm of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance ...