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M&A and IPO the 'gamechangers' for 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Providing an outlook for the new year, Fidelity International portfolio manager Casey McLean said M&A and IPO activities will likely increase, noting there are a list of companies anticipated to make the foray into the public markets across the US and ...

Brighter Super to buy up Queensland real assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Brighter Super has handed Barings $100 million to acquire real assets in the Sunshine State, the first tranche of its Queensland Investment Strategy. Brighter Super's Queensland Investment Strategy, which was announced in May this year, involves investing ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Two of Australia's former top executives at the forefront of change have become highly influential figures on sovereign wealth fund boards. Sue Brake, former Future Fund investment chief and adviser to Singapore's central bank has chosen a second ...

Schroders shutters local private debt arm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Schroders has confirmed its Australian private debt division will close, saying its efforts are better directed elsewhere. Schroders Australia is terminating its local private debt strategy, which was launched in 2020 when it established its private ...

AI can improve super fund value chain: CFA Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Superannuation funds and the broader global pension system can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) in every corner of the value chain to ultimately provide efficient, personalised services to members, new research from the CFA Institute found. ...

Chalmers defends budget deficits in MYEFO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his government's mid-year economic fiscal outlook (MYEFO) a "responsible set of books" despite major budget deficits likely to continue for a decade. The MYEFO forecasted a budget deficit of $26.9 billion for 2024-25 ...

Perpetual takeover 'not in the best interests of shareholders'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
The proposed acquisition of Perpetual's wealth management and corporate trustees' businesses by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has been deemed not in the best interests of shareholders. An independent expert informed the wealth manager that the risk ...

Trustee valuation processes 'concerning': APRA review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
Many superannuation trustees have been told they must improve their valuation governance practices, with APRA finding just 11 have dedicated valuation committees while others involve staff members whose remuneration is tied to asset values in the process. ...

Unemployment drops below 4%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 3.9% in November, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "With employment rising by 36,000 people and the number of unemployed decreasing by 27,000 people, the ...

Wellington client exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
One of the world's largest privately held asset managers has farewelled a senior executive who has been with the firm for two decades. Charles Davies has retired from the $1.2 trillion investment manager where he was a relationship manager in the ...