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AMP shareholders approve executive pay

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... strategy, and to appropriately reflect the stage that the company is at now. "Therefore, we have changed one of the scorecard metrics by replacing statutory net profit after tax with cost to income. This is a more relevant metric as the business pivots ...

Northern Trust survey reveals what's testing asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... asset values, particularly in sectors tied to natural resources or infrastructure. Northern Trust also examined the risk metrics "key to effective management" to assess potential vulnerabilities, with liquidity risk being cited as the most important. ...

SQM places private credit sector on watch

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... system even at levels of activity that do not pose risks to financial stability," ASIC explained. Recent reporting around Metrics Credit Partners and Count Financial added to the discourse on the viability of private credit. Count recently advised its ...

CareSuper to merge with meat industry fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... rate of -9.23% - the fourth largest decline across all registrable superannuation entities. "The fund's sustainability metrics, as a result of COVID, weren't great..." Kaspar said. CareSuper's balanced MySuper default investment option returned 10.6% ...

Underperforming managers in China could see pay halved

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... plan, fund returns will account for at least half of the weighting in senior management's evaluation, while other metrics such as the firm's size and ranking will become less important. The article went on to say that sweeping measures come as ...

Korean pension fund takes $50m stake in Metrics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
The National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea - the worlds third largest pension fund - has acquired a 4.17% stake in Metrics Credit Holdings for $50 million. This comes seven years after Pinnacle Investment Management paid $46 million for a 35% equity ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... reforms across the finish line. Australia is in a unique situation as it leads when it comes to educating females based on metrics by the World Economic Forum. But their representation falls behind in the workforce. According to the Global Gender Gap ...

Metrics acquires BC Investment Group

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
Metrics Income Opportunities Trust will acquire 100% of BC Investment Group (BCI) for $140.3 million from FEC Capital - which currently holds a 53.2% stake - and other minorities including management. Metrics Income Opportunities Trust, which is managed ...

Family office CIO joins Heritvest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... investment chief - who currently chairs the Actuaries Institute's banking education faculty - joins Heritvest from Metrics Credit Partners, where he served as treasurer. Before that, he worked at Escala Partners as chief product officer in capital ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... orthodox standards, which adds to concerns from investors. "For investment professionals, being able to value assets by metrics such as future cash flows, dividend yields, yield-to-cash flow, and more, are non-negotiables," he said. "[Bitcoin] produces ...