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The highest paying jobs in financial services: Data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
There is a high demand for financial services professionals in Australia, according to the 2025 Robert Walters Salary Survey. The three roles employers are most eager to fill are operations analysts, investment analysts and credit analysts, the survey ...

Subscription EVs attract HESTA, IFM interest

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
IFM Investors and HESTA, by way of its mandate with the former, will take a 49% stake in Splend Group, a provider of subscription electric vehicles. IFM Investors has made the investment via its Growth Partners Fund 2, with HESTA and others also investing ...

BlackRock loses senior executive touted as Fink's successor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
BlackRock senior managing director, head of global client business Mark Wiedman - who was regarded as a potential successor to chief executive Larry Fink - is exiting the asset manager. Wiedman is responsible for BlackRock's commercial relationships ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
APAC financials, energy, and materials firms are most likely to link ESG metrics to executive incentive plans. Across the top 400 APAC firms, 193 disclosed their executive incentive metrics. Three-quarters (74%) used ESG metrics. Australian companies ...

Research digs into HNW investment preferences

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
According to new research from Praemium, high-net-worth (HNW) investors with stronger balances are typically tipping more into alternatives. The report comes as advisers eye the asset class along with artificial intelligence (AI) and technology as key ...

Bitcoin now 7th largest global asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Bitcoin finished 2024 up 123.4%, ranking as the seventh largest global asset by market capitalisation, according to new research from Binance Australia. However, momentum stalled in late December when the US Federal Reserve scaled back its planned 2025 ...

Dixon Advisory clients should be heard at Senate inquiry: Anderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager of policy, advocacy, and standards Phil Anderson has urged the Senate Committee inquiry into Dixon Advisory to hear from ex-clients. Anderson said it should never be forgotten that it's ...

Insignia takeover heats up, Bain Capital ups bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Bain Capital has re-entered the arena to vie for Insignia Financial, matching CC Capital Partners' $4.30 per share offer. Insignia rejected Bain Capital's bid of $4 per share on December 18, claiming it "does not adequately represent fair value" ...

WA financial planning firm acquired by US insurance broker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... moving forward. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. WMP is a financial planning firm specialising in retirement plan risk management for individuals and corporate clients, and the acquisition will further strengthen the insurance broker's ...

Adviser number growth shoots?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
The number of advisers that have exited the industry over the past four or five years appears to have plateaued, albeit another decline in 2023, last year's figures suggest that the losses have stabilised, according to Rainmaker Information's 2024 ...