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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 ...

March inflation drops to 7%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023
... elimination or increase of wage growth caps imposed by state governments. "These pressures add further fuel to the inflationary fire, boosting the case for further policy tightening later in the year," he said.

Modern slavery on the rise a decade on from Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... of the Rana Plaza tragedy, three multi-stakeholder-driven accords were created - the legally binding Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety (the Accord), the retail-driven Alliance on Bangladesh Worker Safety (the Alliance) and the complementing ...

Why clients fire their financial adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023
New Morningstar research reveals the underlying reasons why clients dump their financial advisers that are not related to costs or investment performance. The survey of US-based clients found three core reasons why they let go of their advisers. The ...

ASIC warns super funds on member communication failure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... results. ASIC named and shamed the following trustees and the respective super funds whose communication strategies are under fire: BT Funds Management (Retirement Wrap), Equity Trustees Superannuation (AMG Super), EISS Super (Pool A), SCS Super (Australian ...