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CEFC funds sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... requirements around physical climate risk assessments and consideration of stretch targets aligned to the International Energy Agency definition for zero-carbon-ready buildings. Embodied carbon is the emissions associated with the construction and ongoing ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... marginally narrowed from 23.6% to 22.2% in the last financial year, newly released figures from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) show. Across all professions, this comes to a 21.8% pay gap or every $1 on average a man makes, women earn 78c. ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... average. For the average fund, tokenisation is expected to generate a 30% cost saving on fund accounting, 25% on transfer agency costs, and 24% on compliance monitoring, client reporting, and regulatory reporting. Overall, asset managers could achieve ...

Former AMP licensees rebranded as Akumin

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... businesses, Fortnum Private Wealth and Personal Financial Services. It follows the appointment of an external creative agency and consultation with The Advisers Association, the group's employees and financial advisers. Brand workshops and surveys ...

Financial services chips away at gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
The financial services sector made a fractional improvement on its gender pay disparity, reporting a 22.2% gap on a median and average basis, the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) report shows. The 2024 financial year shows that financial ...

SEC drops civil enforcement case against Coinbase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... renew its regulatory approach to the crypto industry, not on any of the merits of the claims alleged in the action. The agency also clarified that the dismissal doesn't signal a shift in its stance on other ongoing cases. "The Cyber and Emerging Technologies ...

Alpencrest ramps up expansion, signs Aussie affiliate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... mid-market private credit strategy. "We were concerned, when we set up the business as a third-party marketer/placement agency, that the hardest part would be to find interesting institutional-quality investment managers. It turned out that was the easy ...

Renewable energy company secures $160m from Macquarie

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... the United States, will allow us to reach 1 GW of projects in operation in 2026." According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global clean energy investment reached $3 trillion (US$1.9tn) in 2023, up 10% year-on-year, outpacing the amount allocated ...

Northern Trust scores mandate for $32bn infra business

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... administrator. Under the new agreement, Northern Trust will provide fund administration, investor servicing and transfer agency, corporate secretarial and depository services to Igneo's funds domiciled in Australia, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and ...

Workplace expert joins Aware Super in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... Deloitte, he led the APAC gender pay equity strategy which resulted in Deloitte achieving its first Workplace Gender Equality Agency compliance and citation. Aware Super group executive of people and workplace Steve Hill said the role was a pivotal one ...