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Three in five women lack retirement confidence

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
New research commissioned by Colonial First State (CFS) has highlighted significant disparities between men and women when it comes to retirement preparedness and financial confidence. The findings, based on a survey of 2250 Australians, revealed that ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
UniSuper is refreshing the investment strategy for its Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option, effective March 28. The major change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated ...

'We're not going anywhere': SS&C serious about Aussie expansion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
After entering into an agreement with Insignia Financial in December last year to take on around 1400 staff and transform its master trust business, SS&C is eyeing significantly more market share in Australia. Speaking to Financial Standard, SS&C global ...

Andrew Lill to run investments at legalsuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
Andrew Lill has been appointed interim chief investment officer at legalsuper. Lill will oversee the $6.4 billion super fund's investments while it searches for a permanent replacement for Paul Murray. Lill was previously chief investment officer ...

Vale Donald Williams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Donald Williams, co-founder and former chief investment officer of Platypus Asset Management, is being remembered following his passing. Williams began his career as an analyst at AMP in 1990. In 1994 he became a commodity analyst at Credit Suisse First ...

HNWIs set to increase real estate exposure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Australia is in the top 10 for populations with more than US$10 million ($15.7 million) globally, with the Knight Frank Wealth Report 2025 revealing the wealthy are set to increase their exposure to real estate. According to the report, Australia ranks ...

Large financial firms falling behind on AI adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, larger financial firms are lagging small and medium sized businesses when it comes to adoption, according to Evolved.AI chief executive Mike Kollo. Kollo - who is in Sydney preparing to present at the ...

abrdn embraces letter 'E' again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
After its much derided rebrand did little good, abrdn will add back the three vowels it removed from its name in 2021. Overnight, it was announced that abrdn will be renamed aberdeen group and trade as aberdeen. In April 2021, Standard Life Aberdeen ...

Praemium names interim CFO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
Praemium appointed a chief financial officer to replace Dave Coulter in the interim. Simon Moore is the temporary finance chief as Praemium searches for permanent replacement. Coulter was in the chief financial officer role from March 2022. Prior to ...

Aussie dividends underperform on global scale: Janus Henderson

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
Australian dividends fell significantly, with key companies cutting payouts amid surging economic pressures, dipping behind other large players including the US, Canada, France, Japan and China, Janus Henderson Investors' new report shows. Global dividend ...