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Luxury fashion house sued over Birkin bag sales

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
Hermes is facing an antitrust class action which alleges it only allows customers with "sufficient purchase history" to buy the infamous Birkin handbags. The French luxury fashion house is being sued in California in a case that claims sales associated ...

UK advisers told to review retirement advice processes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... vulnerability may have been present knowledge and experience of investments and understanding of risk was either recorded at a high level, inconsistently or not supported by the information on file expenditure analysis was not recorded or completed so ...

US Federal Reserve eyes multiple interest rate cuts this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... Market Committee (FOMC) chose to keep the benchmark policy rate at 5.25% to 5.50%. Despite holding rates at their current level, the latest dot plot revealed the FOMC expects 75 basis points of cuts this year, with more to come in 2025. "That is despite ...

AustralianSuper's move to boost productivity by up to 30%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... because the fund needs to "think carefully" about how it will be embedded into its processes. "Our AI maturity is only at level one on the five-point scale that we're using, so we'll be undertaking a program to get ourselves up the maturity scale and ...

Markets, economies benefit from eustress: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... sufficiently challenging yourself without expending all the resources. From an individual perspective, we need stress - a healthy level of stress. Of course, you can have too much stress, which leads to disorganised behaviour, impaired selectivity, and ...

Castlerock embarks on $30m capital raise

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... states. The 10-year-old fund has some $526 million in assets. The fund manager is currently completing a $60 million, five-level office building in Frankston, which will be leased by the Victorian State Government. The fund was formerly known as the ...

Policymakers face significant challenge in regulating AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... ball and we do not know which start-up companies will become the next titans, and which current superstars will fall. This level of uncertainty means we are regulating what we do not really understand, which is, which governments need to be cautious ...

Majority comply with IDR reporting: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024
... account for the largest financial firms attached to over 60% of the consumer and small business complaints made. "The high level of compliance with this new requirement is encouraging. Firms are reminded of the need to meet this reporting requirement ...

Australian Retirement Trust announces new investment strategy and options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
... most in a new investment menu, they told us performance, fees, sustainable investing and the ability to choose the right level of risk were top priority - all of which remained front of mind when we worked to streamline these choice investment options," ...

Low-margin clients hurt practice valuations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024
... an advice practice are typically put off by this client base generating low-margin revenue, Centurion found, saying the level of work required significantly reduces profitability and drives the average multiple down. "The exception being if an acquirer ...