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An assessment of the largest 197 companies on four major stock exchanges found Australian companies’ reports were less transparent than those from Europe and Asia....

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People & Products

AMP has appointed a new chief financial officer as James Georgeson departs after more than 20 years with the firm....

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Policy & Regulation

APRA has imposed additional licence conditions on trustees of superannuation funds within the Insignia Group. ...

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Funds management

Firetrail Investments has launched the high conviction S3 Global Opportunities fund on the ASX....

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Funds management

Platinum has reported outflows of almost $100 million in August as markets struggled and co-founder Kerr Neilson announced his departure, compared to inflows of $22 milli...

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Funds management

Perpetual and Pendal have confirmed they are in discussion about a potential acquisition after Pendal rejected a bid earlier this year....

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Funds management

It is “highly unusual” to see a market sector crash twice in two years as the technology sector falls back to pre-COVID levels, according to Dale Gillham, despite the sma...

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Features

When investing in global equities to achieve portfolio diversification, investors should opt for those exposures which have the lowest correlation with their domestic sha...

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Funds management

Pendal has rejected a bid from Perpetual as it believes it is not in members’ best interest and significantly undervalues the company....

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Financial planning

The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has released data revealing women only make up 9.5% of board chair roles and 6.5% of chief executive roles across the A...

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Funds management

GQG Partners has seen strong growth in Australian wholesale assets with assets rising from $179 million a year ago to $860 million....

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Funds management

Record high M&A activity, share buybacks and special dividends in 2021 helped to increase demand for IPOS as cash was returned to investors and then redeployed....

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Funds management

GQG has brought forward its plans to launch an exchange traded fund in order to offer a “frictionless entry point” for advisers. ...

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Funds management

Last year was a bumper year for initial public offerings (IPOs) as the volume of activity increased by 68% in the second half of the year....

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Funds management

Perpetual has announced that its total assets under management stood at $102.8 billion in Q2, up 1.8% on the prior period, with all divisions showing growth....

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