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Anthony Doyle joins Schroders as director

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
Schroders Investment Management has nabbed former Firetrail Investments head of investment strategy Anthony Doyle to be its director of global equities investment. Reporting to Ray Macken, head of client group, Australia and New Zealand, Doyle is based ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... have Iran, maybe on the verge of nuclear weapons, North Korea sending troops," he said. "We have a world that may not be on fire but is smouldering and American leadership is required to fix this. And then we have China, and the complexity of that relationship ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... two years on the board. Before being appointed a director, she was VFMC's chief executive from 2016 to 2021. Running fire drills From the start, Gray realised that building greater resilience in the fund's investment performance and capability ...

Fair Work ruling, ASIC put offshoring arrangements on notice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
Fair Work Australia's (FWA) recent ruling in favour of a Philippines-based worker to bring an unfair dismissal case against the former employer could serve as a warning for financial services firms who rely on offshoring, as the corporate regulator ...

Link between super and banking major priority in 2025: APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
... manage the risks that arise from operating a business, whether that be an electricity blackout, industrial dispute or building fire. McCarthy Hockey pointed to the CrowdStrike outage, which impacted millions of Windows systems globally, and said it was ...

WAM tells investors it 'got the call wrong'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... bottles and cans maker Orora. Haupt also said they missed out on a dazzling rally in bank stocks. "Sometimes we play with fire, and when we play with fire occasionally we get burnt," Ayoub said. "We got that one wrong, but the journey isn't quite over." ...

Federal Reserve rate cuts beckon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
The US Federal Reserve is widely tipped to fire the starting gun on its first rate cutting cycle in years; here's what top economists see unfolding. AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina said some people believe the Fed is behind the curve and that ...

ASX-listed firm invests with Osmosis

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
Osmosis Investment Management, which is part of Clearway Capital Solutions' stable, has won a mandate from an ASX-listed firm. Evans and Partners allocated an undisclosed amount to Osmosis' Resource Efficient Ex Fossil Fuels Fund. The fund applies ...

AOF sells another asset, flags delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2024
... terminate AOF's debt facility and declare a special distribution of at least nine cents per unit. The deal is another fire sale for the REIT which has been aggressively looking for buyers in the past year thanks to the office sector rout taking a ...

Super performance test needs personal rate of return: Adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... products since 2021 while trustee-directed products (TDPs), a subset of the choice accumulation sector, were thrown in the fire last year. Ninety-six out of 97 TDPs failed the inaugural choice performance test. Treasury launched a consultation in March ...