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Salter Brothers bolsters equities team with iPartners hire

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
Alternative fund manager Salter Brothers has welcomed Emily Mohan as investment director, strengthening its capabilities in equities. In the new role, Mohan will be responsible for unlisted funds, covering investment origination, evaluation, executing ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Max Gill has been promoted to senior portfolio analyst with QIC's state investments team. Gill joined the Queensland Government's $68 billion investment arm six years ago working initially with the global multi-asset team followed by the state ...

TPB welcomes stay of sanctions against disqualified agents

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) has declined to stay or suspend sanctions imposed by the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) against disqualified tax agents in three separate cases. All three cases relate to misconduct on the part of tax agents ...

Top asset management trends for 2025

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Despite a turbulent 2024, the prospect of more accommodating monetary and regulatory policies has turbocharged an up and to the right trend that's flattered many asset managers' businesses. However, themes that will shape the industry now, and in the ...

One in five pension funds face liquidity risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Nearly one in five pension funds face liquidity risks particularly as they increase allocations to private assets, a new survey shows. The study of pension funds from the UK, US, Netherlands, Canada, and the Nordics by Ortec Finance reveals many are ...

Channel Investment Management secures RE mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Channel Investment Management has secured a responsible entity (RE) mandate from a global real estate fund manager to oversee another two strategies. CBRE Investment Management's Global Infrastructure Securities Fund and Global Property Securities ...

Research digs into HNW investment preferences

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
According to new research from Praemium, high-net-worth (HNW) investors with stronger balances are typically tipping more into alternatives. The report comes as advisers eye the asset class along with artificial intelligence (AI) and technology as key ...

How to simplify super to get better retirement outcomes: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
The superannuation system has lacked a clear direction for the provision of retirement outcomes, and while this is gradually changing, there remains a need to make it simpler for Australians, according to a Mercer report. The Australian retirement income ...

ANZ, Macquarie bring forward rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Both ANZ and Macquarie have moved their interest rate cut predictions forward to February from May following last week's inflation data. ANZ head of Australian economics Adam Boyton said the bank was expecting core inflation to drop to 3.2%, down from ...

WA financial planning firm acquired by US insurance broker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co has acquired Western Australia-based Wealth Management Partners (WMP), with the entire WMP team to remain under Arthur J. Gallagher's direction moving forward. Details of the transaction were not ...