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Recession signs: Economic growth has 'ground to a halt'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... significantly", saying economic growth has "ground to a halt". "Indeed, the six-month annualised pace of GDP growth to the March quarter fell to 0.8%. This compares with population growth of 2.4%/yr. The upshot is that the economy has contracted a lot ...

Block Earner dodges massive fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... in 2021 by Charlie Karaboga and Jordan Momtazi and backed by Framework, Coinbase, Longhash, and Sequoia Capital. Between March and November 2022, ASIC found Block Earner provided unlicensed financial services and operated an unregistered MIS when offering ...

HESTA nabs legalsuper executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... supporting HESTA's executive leadership team in strategic planning and key initiatives. Legalsuper announced back in March that Knight had been appointed to its Office of the CEO & Strategy after taking a career break since August 2022. Prior to ...

Equip Super names chief experience officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... prepare our members for financial freedom in retirement." Sister publication Industry Moves flagged the announcement in early March as Equip doubled its efforts to improve the superannuation experience for members. Cameron said at the time that the newly ...

Freshwater Wealth launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... at Westpac leading the advice team in its commercial and private bank. Fuchs recently left Viridian to join Freshwater in March, while Harris was an adviser at Manly Financial Services until April. Perrett said the new practice aims to be a conduit to ...

Super funds slash external mandates by 54%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... latest Mandate Chaser report shows. This is significantly down from the 340 total mandates that were awarded at the end of March 2022, as super funds chose to appoint themselves to manage money. Analysing mandates awarded from three years ago to the ...

ANZ dumps remaining stake in AmBank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... basis points. This is in addition to the 16 basis points gained from the sale of the initial 16.5% block of AmBank shares in March. Earlier this year, ANZ said that divestment released $668 million in capital, which was returned to shareholders through ...

Vision Super chair departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
... female chair, having held the role since July 2021. She replaced Geoff Lake, under whom she served as deputy chair since March 2018. Prior, she was a trustee director of HESTA from 2013 to 2017. Darmanin was instrumental in Vision Super's decision ...

Super pool jumps to $3.9tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024
Superannuation assets soared to $3.9 trillion, jumping 11.3% at the end of March despite the number of APRA-regulated funds shrinking. The latest APRA statistics show that a wave of contributions drove the momentum as well as investments returning 10.9% ...

EQT Mid-Market Growth Fund exceeds target

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... US$29 billion in 2024, following the US$24 billion close of EQT X in February and the US$3.3 billion close of EQT Future in March.