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Aussie fintech growth counteracted by local challenges: EY

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
Australia's fintech sector is showing signs of growth; however, it's still being held back by constrained local capital, complex regulatory challenges, and investor appetite for offshore opportunities. In its eighth consecutive year, the EY ...

Gender pay gap trends down: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
... government's scheme, the proportion of employers offering some form of paid parental leave rose from 62% to 63%. Workers in big corporations were 1.5 times more likely to have access to employer-funded paid parental leave than employees working in ...

Conscious Investment Management fund receives $50m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... advantage. "The Paul Ramsay Foundation also brings skills to the table in terms of how they do impact measurement, and they have a big philanthropic team thinking about this and breaking cycles of disadvantage. It is really powerful to have them on board." ...

Small-cap shares set to soar: Flinders

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
While fears of a recession and market correction, and runaway inflation have caused small-cap stocks to underperform over the past couple of years, the opportunity for growth has never been greater, according to Flinders Investment Partners (Flinders) ...

Young women report low financial literacy: NAB

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... it extends to understanding how to manage a credit card to your advantage and being able to figure out the best way to make big purchases happen." Chambers said the research found that individuals displaying overconfidence in their financial literacy ...

Frontier restructures, promotes

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
Frontier Advisors has redesigned its research structure and promoted internal talent into a number of new roles including a new deputy research director. Responding to a shift in focus by its institutional investor client base, the asset consultant ...

AMP to pay $100m to settle BOLR class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023
... place. We've improved technology and advice delivery processes, so the overall sentiment has improved. "But BOLR was this big issue from the past that we had to face into, and we had to deal with to make sure we rebuilt that trust... We had rebuilt ...

Small, large entity regulation needs balance: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... regulation that we've got," he said. "We have hard coded into our supervision model proportionality. So, if you're big, you will have more regulation than if you're little, if you do something wrong, we increase that intensity. It is scalable." ...

Private market deal activity set to persist amid high-rates: Aviva

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
... markets remain open, borrowing terms are undergoing adjustments with reduced leverage, and there's a declining appetite for big-ticket transactions, Aviva said. "A bifurcation can be seen between prime and non-prime stock, particularly in offices. Prime ...

Interest rate hikes are working: Bullock

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock defended the central bank's use of monetary policy and hiking interest rates amid many challenges that looks to keep inflation at stubborn levels over the next two years. Speaking at the ASIC Annual ...