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Former super fund investment chief in new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... in December 2022. Before that, Block spent two years as investment chief at Nambawan Super - a defined contribution government superannuation fund in Papua New Guinea. The incoming Bellmont investment chief has also consulted for several asset owners ...

ACCC urges parliament to pass new merger laws

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... Services Forum that the ACCC has been advocating for reforms to merger control in Australia for years and urged the government to pass the reforms. "These reforms are particularly important in the context of the current environment where increasing market ...

ANZ suspected of more mistakes amid bond saga

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... update on its investigation into ANZ's role as joint lead manager and risk manager of the issuance of 10-year Australian government Treasury Bonds last year. The investigation, commenced April last year, is currently ongoing. Appearing before the Parliamentary ...

AustralianSuper bids farewell to retirement chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... members in a very stressful time for them and the fund, when thousands of transactions were completed in line with the government requirements," Schroder said. "Shawn's contributions to AustralianSuper will be long lasting and I want to thank him ...

Cbus names chief strategy officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... the now-famous fox and henhouse ads which were designed to sway consumers away from bank-owned funds and influence government policy. Before working in super, Dean worked as an organiser with the Australian Council of Trade Unions in the mid-1990s before ...

Retail super funds spend big on advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... with $44.3 million, followed by AustralianSuper with $29.8 million and ART's $20.1 million. Several retail and government funds do not offer any form of financial advice. OnePath's Retirement Portfolio Service, which had $32.9 billion in FY23 ...

BlackRock partners to build $1.5bn life sciences platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... sciences sector represents a growing opportunity to capitalise on the long-term sectoral tailwinds driven by increased government and infrastructure spend, as well as the existing capability of Australian universities, industry and innovation clusters." ...

Inflation falls within RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... unemployment, and persistent wage inflation. Additionally, retail sales growth has accelerated, and the full impact of the government's $1.7 billion July tax cuts has yet to be fully realised. These factors are likely to sustain upward pressure on inflation ...

Jones preps DBFO Tranche 2 for parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said the government will press on with Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms that he is preparing to introduce in parliament. The highly anticipated set of changes promise to remove laborious ...

Australia a top destination for international investment: QIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... foreign debt position, which sits at 32% of GDP. This offsets a favourable public sector debt position where gross government debt is just 55% of GDP, which is significantly lower than the global average of 85%," Peter said. "Clearly, Australia's debt ...