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QIC, super funds pour more into Queensland space tech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
QIC, Hostplus and HESTA are among backers to invest a further $55 million into Gold Coast-based Gilmour Space Technologies. Gilmour recently completed a Series D funding round, aimed at raising capital to support the manufacture, test and launch of ...

Economists share their top left field ideas for 2024

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... they've got means it'll be a great year for tech stocks," he predicted. However, La Trobe Financial chief investment officer Chris Paton highlighted the resilience of the property market as his Factor-X. "I don't see that changing given where central ...

ANZ gets green light for Suncorp merger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
ANZ has had a significant legal win on appeal, with its proposed $4.9 billion acquisition of Suncorp's banking arm given the go-ahead. The decision to authorise the takeover was handed down this morning by the Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT) ...

Head of property at Hostplus exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... that can boast former Future Fund property head Barry Brakey and former AMP Capital head of real estate funds management Chris Judd on its investment committee. Before his 11 years at Hostplus, Deftereos worked at LendLease, where he held a product development ...

Bravura hires chief people officer from AMP

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
... deliver for our clients, and drive growth for our organisation," Russell said. In December, Bravura promoted Paul Dunn and Chris Spencer to regional chief executive roles in line with its new global strategy. Dunn, who spent five years at Bravura, stepped ...

PGIM names institutional client group lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... left vacant by Murray Brewer last August. The US$1.2 trillion asset management business of Prudential Financial has chosen Chris Briant to be the new head of its institutional client group for Australia and New Zealand. Briant replaces Brewer who departed ...

Vale Lang Walker

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
... new Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building in Macarthur (in partnership with Western Sydney University) and supporting Chris O'Brien Lifehouse. Walker was also a longstanding supporter of Next Science, a listed medical device company that works ...

Interest rates drive adviser conversations in 2024

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
Interest rates will continue to be a driving force behind client conversations in 2024 as financial advisers remain agile regardless of whichever direction they will go. The rapid upward trajectory of interest rates - from 0.10% in April 2022 to today's ...

Insignia Financial touts strong start to FY24, simplification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... strategic initiatives is the client wellbeing division it created last year. Today Insignia confirmed it is to be led by Chris Weldon. He was previously Insignia's chief transformation officer, but will now oversee the professional services advice teams ...

Australian Ethical super chief goes for growth in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
Australian Ethical is transitioning its administration to Grow Inc in 2024, while also aspiring to accelerate growth in response to an increasing preference for ethical investments, says chief executive of superannuation Ross Piper. In an interview ...