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Westpac plans aggressive platforms play

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023
... integrate really well to other technologies used by advisers, and we're making sure we're nimble. We're moving down a pathway to leverage the strength of the bank, but also looking at opportunities and pathways to the way we think about the ...

Heatmaps drive efficiencies, more consolidation: Cole

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... actually very interested in this point, but clearly, no one would want to get to a world in which that market became so shrunken down that there were problems with competition," Cole said. "In fact, in the last four years, we've had four new entrants ...

No regrets: Hayne reflects on Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
... they will do when you take it on, knowing that that those are the ground rules and the decisions they make." Since handing down his recommendations in early 2019, the slew of regulatory changes that followed shook how Australia's finance and banking ...

Global economic growth hits 20-year low: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... said there were tentative signs in early 2023 that the world economy could achieve a soft landing - with inflation coming down and growth steady - which have receded amid stubbornly high inflation and recent financial sector turmoil. "Although inflation ...

Global alternatives manager lands down under

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
A US$74 billion alternatives asset manager has opened a local office and hired a head of Australia and New Zealand from HSBC. GCM Grosvenor has established an office in Sydney and appointed Andy Lukas to lead the firm's push into the region. The ...

Government targets ASX dominance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
... that delivers for the Australian economy and the Australian people." In the wake of the proposed changes, ASIC is clamping down on the ASX to ensure that it successfully replaces CHESS after botching its attempt to overhaul it with blockchain. Following ...

HESTA investment committee chair to depart

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
HESTA investment committee chair and independent director Mark Burgess will step down from the board at the end of June following six years in the role. As his term comes to an end, the fund's chief executive Debby Blakey said Burgess oversaw a period ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... target of 65% of capital commitments that will go into new commercial plantation development, which is effectively buying land and planting trees, not buying into mature plantations," Whiteley said. "There will be about 20% of the fund which will be ...

Whole of portfolio solutions running hot: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... nimbler with portfolio allocations, and there's probably a new playbook that needs to be used... Correlations have broken down, and bonds and equities have been both falling together. Therefore, the traditional correlations and expectations of markets ...

Downside risk dominates Australia's economic outlook: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Australia's economy is on a narrow path to a soft landing, with downside risks. An IMF report said downside risks to the economic outlook dominate, with uncertainty regarding global growth, commodity ...