Hejaz Financial Services appoints new Director to keep up with record demand for sharia-compliant financial products

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Hejaz Financial Services, a leading Australian Islamic financial services provider, has today announced the appointment of Chris Deakin to the newly created role of Sales Director. With immediate effect, she... Read more continue reading

Bell Asset Management wins Undiscovered Manager, Fund Manager of the Year Award from Morningstar

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Global equities boutique manager, Bell Asset Management is thrilled to announce that it has won the Fund Manager of the Year award for the Undiscovered Manager category at the Morningstar Australia Awards... Read more continue reading

Biggest merger in super industry now finalised

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The merger of QSuper and Sunsuper to become Australian Retirement Trust, the second largest super fund in the country with over two million members and more than $230 billion in... Read more continue reading

Record retail spending in WA and the Top End – Biggest lift in business credit growth in 13 years

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Retail trade; Private sector credit Retail trade rose by 1.8 per cent in January after falling by 4.4 per cent in December. Retail trade was up by 6.4 per cent on... Read more continue reading

RBA March board meeting: Nothing to see here

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The RBA meets tomorrow with no real prospect of any policy change. Recent communication suggests that the RBA would be ‘patient’ in withdrawing any policy stimulus. If anything, recent wage... Read more continue reading

Getting more women back into the workplace

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Job-readiness support organisation, Fitted for Work, has been awarded a grant of $30,000 from the William Buckland Foundation. The not-for-profit group empowers women and non-binary people experiencing disadvantage, with the... Read more continue reading

Move to traditional safe-haven assets to safeguard investment portfolios

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With underlying post-pandemic economic and market conditions, namely concurrent inflation and volatility, being an unfamiliar backdrop for investors, there is risk that the Russia-Ukraine situation won’t play out as a... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic and market update – week ending 25 February 2022

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Investment markets and key developments Share markets were hit over the last week as Ukraine tensions escalated and then Russia invaded Ukraine. Although Russia has indicated it does not plan... Read more continue reading

Equity Trustees delivers strong earnings increase as funds growth continues

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EQT Holdings Limited (ASX: EQT), the holding company for Equity Trustees, has announced a strong increase in profit and a higher dividend, as funds under management, administration and supervision (FUMAS)... Read more continue reading

Aviva Investors appoints Co-Manager to Climate Transition Global Equity Fund

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Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), has announced that Andrea Carzana has joined as co-manager of the Aviva Investors Climate Transition Global Equity Fund (CTGE).... Read more continue reading