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Former Schroders executive enters VC space

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
Industry veteran Graeme Mather has joined Antler, the early-stage venture capital investor, as a global partner. In his new role, he will help the venture capitalist deepen ties with large asset managers in the Asia Pacific and look at boosting super ...

Morningstar cops greenwashing fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... Morningstar's International Shares (Unhedged) Fund invested in controversial weapons-making companies Honeywell International, General Dynamics, Leidos Holdings, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon Technologies despite stating in its PDS that such businesses ...

Former adviser convicted over false documents

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... the clients would have faced if they were required to make a claim under their insurance policies, and the relevance of general deterrence for offences of this nature. "Mitigating factors, including Fong Financial Planners' early guilty pleas, other ...

On-platform TDPs miss performance test benchmarks, worst on fees: APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
... in FY23, which had underperformed their return benchmark by an average of 0.38 percentage points. Meanwhile, despite a general decrease in fees for MySuper products, APRA said there remains room for further reductions; particularly for TDP offerings ...

Vale Charlie Munger

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
... was..." Auscap Asset Management founder Tim Carleton echoed Robertson's statement. "At the Berkshire Hathaway annual general meetings, Munger and Buffett would spend many hours keeping tens of thousands of attendees entertained listening to their ...

Aussie fintech growth counteracted by local challenges: EY

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
... behind other global financial hubs just as it is about to move to the next level," she said. Meanwhile, FinTech Australia general manager Rehan D'Almeida said the country has hit a critical inflection point where the ecosystem will either spring ...

ASX calls time on mFund settlement service

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
... of strategies that are available to investors, reducing the comparative advantage of mFund over the ETP structure. ASX general manager of investment products and strategy Andrew Campion previously suggested that mFunds struggle to capture capital wasn't ...

Gender pay gap trends down: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
The gender pay gap has hit a new low of 21.7%, largely driven by women working in senior management positions - except chief executive roles. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) latest scorecard, which assessed 4.82 million ...

Betashares launches cash plus managed fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
The Betashares Australian Cash Plus Fund (managed fund) (MMKT) offers investors access to a diversified portfolio that includes Australian dollar cash and short-term money market securities. According to Betashares, most money market securities in the ...

ASFA appoints Mary Delahunty as chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023
... at HESTA for a little over 10 years, starting as the fund's head of impact in 2018. Delahunty later transitioned to general manager of business development and policy. In the role, she was responsible for the fund's growth, policy formulation ...