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Commerzbank acquires Aquila Capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
Commerzbank is expanding into sustainable asset management, taking a majority stake in Aquila Capital for an undisclosed figure. Commerzbank will acquire 74.9% of the renewable energy-focused manager, while the remaining stake stays with Aquila's parent ...

Generation Development Group nears $3bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
... potentially match or exceed our annual sales record. "We feel confident that this is achievable with the solid increase in active financial advisers utilising our products over the past six to nine months."

Australian Ethical super chief goes for growth in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
Australian Ethical is transitioning its administration to Grow Inc in 2024, while also aspiring to accelerate growth in response to an increasing preference for ethical investments, says chief executive of superannuation Ross Piper. In an interview ...

Qantas Super reduces premiums again

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
Qantas Super has again reduced its insurance premiums six months after it made a round of cuts. On January 1, Qantas Super premiums for income protection reduced by 13%, while rates for default and voluntary death and total and permanent disablement ...

Macquarie consortium bids for technology firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024
... Management officially launched its first range of actively managed ETFs in Australia. Three products - Macquarie Dynamic Bond Active ETF (MQDB), the Macquarie Income Opportunities Active ETF (MQIO), and the Macquarie Walter Scott Global Equity Active ...

Aussie ETF industry hits $177.5bn

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
... from 51 the year prior. "In what is certainly an accelerating trend, a large proportion of the new launches in 2023 were active ETFs (46 or 26 funds) with the majority of these launches being via the creation of traded classes of existing unlisted funds ...

Blackstone appoints co-chief investment officers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024
... powder yet to deploy. Taking the lead as co-chief investment officers ahead of what Blackstone expects to be an "extremely active deployment period" is Ken Caplan and Lionel Assant. Caplan is currently global co-head of real estate, while Assant is European ...

Centrepoint Alliance chair resigns after four months

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024
Simon Swanson has resigned as chair of Centrepoint Alliance (Centrepoint) just four months on from his appointment. Swanson's departure as chair is effective immediately, while his departure as a board director takes effect at the end of the month. ...

SG Hiscock plucks new investment chief from UniSuper

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024
SG Hiscock has appointed a new chief investment officer and head of SGH individual portfolios, who leaves UniSuper after a seven-year stretch. Robert Hogg, who was UniSuper's head of fixed interest and macro research, brings more than 30 years of ...

BlackRock to cull 3% of global workforce

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
... The memo, seen by Financial Standard, cited the growing ubiquity of ETFs as the "preferred vehicle" for both index and active investment strategies. It also flagged that new technologies, which are poised to transform the asset management industry, are ...