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Geopolitical risks force family offices into alternatives, cash: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... portfolios, up from 39% in 2022. Private credit and infrastructure specifically are the most-favoured alternatives. Nearly one-third (32%) of family offices intend to increase their allocations to private credit (32%) and infrastructure (30%) in 2025-26. ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... BlackRock and Vanguard managed US$22 trillion between them. Some 40% of boutiques believe that asset class specialisation is one of their core competitive strengths, while 30% said their focus on a small number of strategies is core to their offering. ...

Firms rebuffing AFCA determinations should be named: FAAA, professional bodies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... AFCA's proposed amendments to its rules highlighted a troubling number of financial firms that refused or failed on at least one occasion to give effect to an AFCA determination. Along with the Chartered Accountants ANZ, CPA Australia, Institute of Public ...

RQI Investors launches new strategy with UniSuper backing

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... testament to the firm's experience and expertise. "Further, we are very fortunate to have secured the support and backing of one of Australia's largest and most sophisticated institutional investors," Francis said. As at March 31, RQI Investors has about ...

IFM Investors chief of staff exits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... lend themselves more to some industries and organisations than others, but we did discover that IFM Investors... isn't really one of them." Financial Standard understands the chief of staff role is not to be replaced. "Amara has made a great contribution ...

TAL partners to expand access to affordable insurance

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... streamlined online registration with no underwriting and 100% digital claims processing. It comes as Cover Genius estimates one million Australians are underinsured for death and total and permanent disability (TPD), while 3.4 million have no or insufficient ...

Fin365 to build one-stop-shop for financial firms

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
The Victorian-based software solution company for financial services has acquired Qwrk Outsourcing to formulate a one-stop-shop for outsourced services as demand grows. Qwrk was founded in 2010 as a paraplanning firm that transitioned into a full-suite ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo has hailed the superannuation industry's $4.1 trillion war chest, which is larger than the ASX's total market capitalisation, as an impressive achievement. But for all its size and influence, Longo reinforced at the AmCham Regulator ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... multi-decade timespans with potential tipping points and second- or third-order downstream impacts'," the report said, adding that one fund noted an inherent tension in applying a broad number of scenarios to produce a range of results. While this provides ...

BFA Global heads offshore

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... milestone for the investment manager led by Jonathan Belz and Gavin Ezekowitz, who are positioning the firm to find deals in one of the region's key financial hubs. Belz, a former executive at Goldman Sachs and the Victor Smorgon family office, will ...