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Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace
Perpetual Corporate Trust will begin operating a digital marketplace offering debt instruments, kicking off with wholesale term deposits.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Aware spends $1.6bn on MIIX
Aware Super has committed $1.6 billion to the Melbourne Intermodal and Industrial Exchange (MIIX) precinct to support expanded capacity and the creation of 3000 jobs.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Managers back Avoided Emissions Platform
Twelve asset managers with US$4 trillion of assets under management have helped launch the Avoided Emissions Platform (AEP), a new tool that calculates avoided emissions to assess the impact of climate solutions.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
First Sentier to enter ETF market
First Sentier Investors is expecting to list its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the ASX in mid-May.
1 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
AMP shareholders approve pay
AMP shareholders overwhelmingly approved the 2025 remuneration and chief executive Alexis George's long-term incentives after the company rejigged its remuneration framework.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
DWS fined $43m for greenwashing
DWS will pay $43 million (US$27m) to settle a long-running greenwashing case brought by Frankfurt prosecutors.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
More big problems for big super
Bad things usually come in threes, right?
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
TAL takes 15% stake in Challenger
MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings has sold its entire 15.1% stake in Challenger to TAL.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
SSGA dominates ESG market
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) continues to dominate the ESG and ethical investment market, according to Rainmaker Information, with a nearly 40% holding.
1 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Tariff tales
The last few weeks have been erratic for geopolitics and investment markets around the world.
1 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
The super fund scouring the dark web to protect members
A compromised identity could result in financial harm, including the loss of superannuation savings, a particularly prominent risk given the volume of members' personal data available for sale.
2 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
PE left 3bn tonnes emissions: Emmi
Emmi estimates that the private equity sector has left three billion tonnes of carbon footprint, but more precise figures are difficult to obtain in the opaque asset class.
1 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
ASIC asks for input on RS, IDR dashboards
The corporate regulator plans to introduce two interactive dashboards that would track firm-level reportable situations and internal dispute resolution (IDR) data to push financial firms to lift their game.
2 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Future Group positions super offerings for growth
As part of Future Group's broader plans to scale, Future Super and Verve Super are set to be merged into the Smart Future Trust, giving members of each a completely new menu of investment options for less.
2 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Coalition targets 30k advisers
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor and Shadow Assistant Treasurer Luke Howarth announced a range of measures the Coalition would be looking to prioritise for the financial advice industry if elected on May 3.
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April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
Cybercriminals attack major superannuation funds
Cybercriminals attempted to breach the systems of several superannuation funds at the start of the month. Although most attacks were repelled, thousands were affected.
3 min |
April 22, 2025
Financial Standard
QIC ready for retail resurgence
The most recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found spending growth in department stores was up 1.5% in February which helped to boost overall consumer spending for the month.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
The case for A-REITS
Australian investors don't tend to think of driving on the left hand side of the road, this doesn't make it wrong, but it does put them in an absolute minority among the world's investors.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Dutton doubles down on 'super for housing'
Opposition leader Peter Dutton put his party's policies on the table during his Budget reply speech, in which he campaigned on energy price reductions, a tougher stance on immigration and increased spending for healthcare and education.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Dear ASIC: How to respond to a regulatory notice
A poorly planned and inadequate response to either a general inquiry or statutory notice from ASIC typically leads to protracted surveillance and action.
4 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
BlackRock rebalance sparks record-high ETF trades
The ASX recorded its biggest-ever ETF market turnover in a day last month, hitting a whopping $2 billion on March 6, largely thanks to BlackRock shifting away from equities to defensive assets within its model portfolios.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Insurer Code breaches rise
Breaches of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (the Code) increased for a fourth consecutive year, with life insurers reporting 14,670 instances of noncompliance, a 19% increase from the previous period.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
AMP surveillance slammed by FSU
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has slammed a \"draconian\" employment contract issued to AMP staff.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Tranche 2 of DBFO dumps SOAs, enables 'nudges'
The long-awaited Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes draft package switches Statements of Advice for Client Advice Records and clarifies what topics super funds can collectively charge for.
4 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Budget deficit 'unduly flattering'
When Treasurer Jim Chalmers presented his fourth consecutive Federal Budget there was a large focus on the deficit growing to $42.1 billion in the next financial year - but this was only considering the underlying figures, with economists pointing out the headline numbers paint a very different picture.
3 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
SQM places private credit sector on watch
SQM Research has placed the private credit sector on watch, saying it is increasingly encountering red flags when rating offerings.
2 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
University endowment mandates Osmosis
The University of Adelaide Endowment Fund has invested with Osmosis via its Ex-Fossil Fuels Strategy.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Federal Budget 2025
The 2025-26 Federal Budget, held on March 26, revealed the Albanese government's first deficit since taking power in 2022.
9 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
Pay, sustainability increasingly tied
Twenty-three of our top 25 listed companies link boardroom pay to sustainability, seeing Australia rank highly among non-EU countries for doing so.
1 min |
April 07, 2025
Financial Standard
INTO THE JUNGLE
Private equity returns have been superior to public markets for a very long time - a fact many people seem happy to accept without asking why.
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