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Dexus delivers profit, flags 'turning point'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... executive appointments, reduced costs, closed two sub-scale products, and are in the process of reviewing opportunities to launch new products. We are actively assessment infrastructure opportunities and remain focused on modernising and stabilising ...

Future Generation appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
Future Generation has appointed its first chief investment officer from Perpetual. The philanthropic investment group has appointed former Perpetual head of private wealth Lee Hopperton. Hopperton will advise Future Generation's Investment Committees ...

Challenger profits up, share price falls

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... Challenger said it progressed a range of initiatives to strengthen its brand and engagement with advisers ahead of the launch of its re-platformed customer technology later this year. Hamilton also noted that the Life business maintained its momentum ...

Oaktree offers Star $650m lifeline

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
Oaktree Capital has offered Star Entertainment a debt financing proposal to provide $650 million in two debt facilities with a term of five years. The proposal is subject to numerus conditions, including a comprehensive security package and intercreditor ...

Our results were strong: Alexis George

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
AMP chief executive Alexis George has told Financial Standard that the company's 2024 financial year results were strong, despite its share price being caned since the announcement. George said that wealth business flows, excluding its bank, have ...

Partners Wealth Group appoints new head of Partners Private

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Partners Wealth Group has appointed a new head of its wholesale investments business, Partners Private. The wealth management firm named Fraser Herd to oversee the development and expansion of its private investment opportunities for clients and partner ...

Platforms placate fee consent ordeal: SuitabilityHub

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Platforms have vastly improved their bulk processing capabilities, particularly as financial advisers come to dread the new fee consent renewal process, SuitabilityHub managing director Recep Peker says. This is one of the main findings in SuitabilityHub's ...

Iress creates dedicated customer role

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... new era of opportunities for technology-led advice delivery," Willmer said. "Adam will play a key role in supporting the launch of our 2025 product roadmap, which introduces innovative new functionality to our Xplan software that will transform how we ...

AMP profit dives as advice business sale bites

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... mortgage book as previously indicated. "We continue to prioritise margins in a competitive environment, and this month's launch of our digital bank is an important way to start to address the funding and revenue mix," George said. Underlying earnings ...

Brookfield subsidiary launches credit fund locally

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
A Brookfield Asset Management subsidiary has launched the Oaktree Strategic Credit Fund (AUD) to Australian wholesale investors and appointed responsible entity (RE) duties to Channel Investment Management. Brookfield Oaktree Wealth Solutions' fund ...