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Class action building against GEMI Capital

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
... class action when GEMI put a freeze on redemptions and dividends. GEMI had been making regular investment updates providing second or first mortgage facilities which suddenly stopped in December 2023. The final update the group gave was that it had secured ...

Job flexibility, labour market delay retirement age

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... driven by increases in part-time employment. Geographically, Perth has the highest expected retirement age for women and the second highest for men. Inversely, Melbourne has the highest retirement age for men and the second highest for women. Meanwhile ...

Foreign investors optimistic about Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... FDI would be more important to their corporate profitability and competitiveness in the next three years. APAC has the second strongest showing in this year's Index, behind Europe, with eight markets represented in the 25 spots of the world rankings ...

Suncorp sells NZ life business to Resolution Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
... New Zealand for NZ$410 million. Resolution Life will buy the business from Suncorp Group. In doing so, it will become the second largest life insurer in New Zealand, with about 165 employees and a network of more than 180,000 customers and financial ...

Aware Super chair named governor-general

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley (Ret'd) and will be Australia's 28th governor-general, and the second woman to hold the position, when she is sworn in on 1 July 2024. Mostyn has had an extensive career in the Australian business ...

CSLR kicks off, 2k await compensation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... funded by the government. The CSLR will pay 11 claims for this period, one of which is for a Dixon Advisory victim. The second levy estimate, however, totals $24.1 million and will be borne by the sectors it regulates. Financial advisers will pay the ...

PE deals tumble again, down 63%: Bain & Company

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... falling 63% in value during 2023 as high interest rates and market uncertainty continues to spook investors. This is the second year in a row that saw deal values decline in the Asia Pacific, a new report from Bain & Company reveals, underscoring another ...

T. Rowe Price launches bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... steepening bias on the US Treasury curve. Within the eurozone, we trimmed our overall underweight duration bias in the second half of the month as we pivoted to overweight bias to Germany," the note read.

Why BlackRock is taking a risk-on view

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... to reflect our view of rates staying higher for longer than pre-pandemic. Markets are not eyeing that outlook for now. Second, stocks could grow more sensitive to macro news as profit margin pressures mount." BlackRock said it was keeping a close eye ...

Australian Ethical eyes small caps as play for advisers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024
... over 2024, boding well for small caps." In particular, Willis said that local tech stocks, which fell out of favour in the second half of last year, along with sectors tied to global megatrends like healthcare and climate solutions, are poised to deliver ...