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Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
Several major superannuation funds such as UniSuper, Aware Super, and Equip Super continue to invest in global weapons companies despite growing concerns among members, particularly as the Israel-Hamas war escalates. This includes France's Thales ...

ASIC charges HESTA for misleading marketing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023
HESTA has come under fire, with ASIC issuing three infringement notices against the fund for purportedly publishing false or misleading performance figures about one of its investment options. The industry fund subsequently incurred a $48,600 fine for ...

AZ NGA acquires stake in $1bn advice firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023
AZ NGA will acquire an undisclosed stake in a Western Australian practice that has $1 billion in funds under advice. The Wealth Designers (TWD) is the latest addition to AZ NGA's stable, joining member firms McKinley Plowman, Wealthwise, and On-Track ...

First Super appoints to board

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2023
... Fellowship to investigate active forest management for multiple landscape benefits in the US and Canada, particularly for fire risk reduction and renewable bioenergy. He also spent three years as deputy administrator of Norfolk Island in public administration ...

How to warm up for a 50-degree day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
... prepared investment strategies are for a specific future scenario of a 50-degree heat wave followed by storm activity and fire across south-east Australia and what it would mean for superannuation funds. "At the broadest level it is about a shift for ...

Pinnacle steadies FY23 profit, FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023
Pinnacle Investment Management was able to buffer wider economic shocks to maintain its profitability, reporting modest inflows and funds under management growth in the 2023 financial year. The ASX-listed firm, with its 15 affiliates, saw FUM of $91.9 ...

Allegro unveils PwC entity as Scyne Advisory

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... of legal professional privilege to subvert the proper enquiry by the Australian Taxation Office," she said. While the PwC fire still burns, Scyne Advisory partners Tim Jackson and Ben Neal said governance and culture will be at the core of the new business. ...

Bank of England launches first system- wide stress test

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023
... UK financial markets. "For instance, if a common response to the scenario is for participants to sell the same asset, then fire sale-type dynamics may occur, which can only be understood by taking a system-wide perspective," it said. Working closely ...

Property market peril to continue: Quay Global Investors

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
... it's not going to stop the financial press from pointing to direct transactions and running around with their hair on fire; they do this all the time." However, decreased property valuations and asset sales has somewhat become a theme. This week ...

MA Financial establishes Singapore office

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... Singapore has become the 'Switzerland of the East', or in other words, the global centre for capital. "Singapore is on fire right now," he said. "The capital flows into Singapore at the moment are extraordinary, and it's not just capital ...