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CBRE taps industry veteran for research head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
CBRE has appointed a new global head of research to lead the team tasked with advising investors on the forces shaping the commercial real estate market. Henry Chin succeeds Richard Barkham, who will retire at the end of June. A more than 10-year veteran ...

New gig for JP Morgan's AI guru

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
Sydney-based Berowne Hlavaty has been appointed global head of applied AI and data science at JP Morgan, the financial services giant. After a long career in quantitative research strategy, Hlavaty is making a switch to an internal technology role where ...

ASIC recommends standards for virtual AGMs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has provided Treasury with a report after conducting an inquiry into companies holding virtual AGMs. As part of the report, the regulator made five recommendations, including that ASIC and ...

Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
Australia should seize the next four years as an opportunity to be a leader in climate investing and the energy transition by taking advantage of the US President Donald Trump's hardline anti-ESG stance, a panel of experts say. Australia has the ...

Underinvestment in Southeast Asia a 'big issue' for Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
Speaking at the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific, former Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore said Australian investors should be paying more attention to investment opportunities in Southeast Asia. Moore said low awareness of the economic ...

Trump Media to launch ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
Trump Media and Technology Group, the operator of social media platform Truth Social, has signed a non-binding agreement with Crypto.com to roll out a suite of branded ETFs through Truth.Fi, its financial services and fintech brand launched in January. ...

Impact investors need instos, governments to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
While it has gained momentum in the last 15 years, impact investing still requires major backing from institutional investors and governments for it to scale and become a formidable force, the first day of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific heard ...

DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has come out swinging against Treasury and its second tranche of draft Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms, saying it can't support them without "substantial change." FAAA chief executive ...

Regal slashes holdings in Opthea over insolvency concerns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
Regal Asian Investments (ASX:RG8) has significantly devalued its holdings in biopharmaceutical company Opthea after the latter flagged insolvency concerns amid the failure of a major clinical trial. RG8 has been forced to drop Opthea's value to ...

Government plans to develop 'fit for purpose' digital asset regime

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and special envoy for cyber security and digital resilience Andrew Charlton have announced plans to develop a digital asset regime, aimed at providing clarity and certainty to the sector. They said this initiative would help to ...