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Bolster your retention efforts: Robert Half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
With close to 90% of employers afraid they'll lose their best team members to new opportunities, 80% of them are planning to increase salaries by an average of 11.4% this year. Latest insights from Robert Half looking at the financial services sector ...

Schroders hires investment director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022
A new investment director has joined Schroders' equities product team, tasked with accelerating its biodiversity strategy and SMA development. Anne-Sophie Williams joins from BlackRock where she has spent the last four years as an active equities product ...

IFM takes majority stake in Render Networks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2022
IFM Investors' private equity growth fund has spent $40 million to acquire a majority stake in construction management platform Render Networks. The growth funds investment in Render Networks keeps with its strategy to accelerate the growth of mid-market ...

Geoff Lloyd to chair DASH

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2022
The former MLC and Perpetual chief executive will take over as chair of the platform later this year, in an announcement that also confirmed the company's chief executive. DASH Technology Group has named Lloyd as chair, effective September, citing his ...

Woolworths scraps AMP super mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
Woolworths has terminated the $4 billion corporate super mandate it had with AMP, instead appointing Australian Retirement Trust to manage 30,000 employees' superannuation. In a Q1 2022 assets under management and cashflows update to investors ...

Macquarie Group posts record earnings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
Macquarie Group has posted a $A4.7 billion net profit for the year ended 31 March 2022, up 56% from the prior year. This strong result was carried by impressive performances across all the companies operating groups. Items within the banking group that ...

BennBridge appoints new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
Bennelong's offshore subsidiary, BennBridge UK and Europe, has appointed Robert McKillop as chief executive. McKillop has almost 30 years of experience in asset management leadership across investment, distribution, and product functions. McKillop's ...

Equity Trustees wins custody, trustee mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
Equity Trustees has been selected as custodian and trustee of a major clean energy investor. Octopus Australia, the local subsidiary of Octopus Group, has awarded a mandate to Equity Trustees for custodian and trustee services. Octopus currently managed ...

Practifi expands its Australian footprint

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
The Australian financial advice technology firm has announced plans to expand further into the local market following great success in the US. Since completing its $24 million 'Series B' investment led by US based venture capital firm Updata Partners ...

CPI sees greatest jump since 2000

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.1% in the March quarter and 5.1% annually - the greatest increases since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in 2000. The growth, revealed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday, came ...