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Change in Substantial Shareholding for FCL

Change in substantial holding

  • Dec 20, 2024
  • 6 pages

Dividend/Distribution - AMPPB

Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate

  • Dec 16, 2024
  • 5 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice - George

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 3 pages

Notification regarding unquoted securities - AMP

Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)

  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 6 pages

Notification of cessation of securities - AMP

Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)

  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 4 pages

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This Month

AMP is believed to be the first major super fund to gain exposure to cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin has ‘no role’ in retirement portfolios: Vanguard

The asset manager has blasted bitcoin as having “no appropriate role” in long-term investment portfolios, but the peak superannuation body says more funds will inevitably follow AMP into cryptocurrency.

  • Lucy Dean
Large retail superannuation funds continue to haemorrhage members and money, according to new data from the prudential regulator.

This big super fund just became the first to buy into crypto

AMP says the $27 million it is investing in bitcoin is part of its diversification strategy. Critics say the asset class has no place in retirement portfolios.

  • Michelle Bowes

November

RBA governor Michele Bullock told attendees that inflation was still too high while speaking on Thursday night.

Economists abandon hopes of RBA cutting rates in February

Economists at AMP, ANZ and Bank of Queensland have joined a chorus of forecasters expecting rate cuts no sooner than May.

  • Alex Gluyas and Joshua Peach
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock.

Rise in underlying inflation to keep rates pressure on RBA

Trimmed mean inflation increased to 3.5 per cent in October from 3.2 per cent in September, even as headline inflation remained unchanged at 2.1 per cent.

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  • Michael Read
Sources said myHomecare had attracted a decent crowd of tyre kickers ranging from private equity investors and health insurers, to senior living operators and workplace solutions groups.

Private equity closes in on a 50pc stake in $2b-plus Opal HealthCare

Pacific Equity Partners has gained exclusivity over the holding, which was put up for sale in July by its owners including Singapore’s GK Goh Holdings.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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October

AMP is on track to launch its new business bank in February.

AMP eyes February for long-planned expansion into business banking

The company, which already has a major mortgage loan book, will target start-ups and sole traders as it attempts to find higher margins.

  • James Eyers
Ian Bremmer says Beijing’s best option to stimulate growth in the short term is to give direct fiscal stimulus to consumers.

China’s new stimulus underwhelms as ‘big fat’ numbers missing

Chances of China rolling out a massive stimulus package to boost its faltering economy are fading after Saturday’s announcement failed to reveal details.

  • Jessica Sier

September

Pacific Equity Partners managing director Andrew Charlier.

PEP bankers up for aged care giant Opal HealthCare; lobs bid

Pacific Equity Partners’ secure assets team has put in a non-binding indicative offer for the $200 million-a-year business.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

August

Geoff Wilson is in the same boat as everyone else at the end of this exhausting profit season – trying to pinpoint exactly where we are in this cycle.

What I learnt from 30 CEOs in 30 days

The profit season has delivered a confusing picture of an economy stuck between cycles. Here are 30 nuggets to help investors navigate this tricky environment. 

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  • James Thomson

The super funds failing to perform

For the first time, all default MySuper options passed the APRA performance test, but big retail funds continue to underperform.

  • Michelle Bowes and Hannah Wootton
Lauren Williams, director of Megaport, Anna Leibel, director of AMP, David Whittle, director of Myer, and Joanne Palmer, director of Paladin.

The directors under 50 making their mark on top ASX boards

BOSS talks to five directors under the age of 50 about their careers and the experience they bring to the boards on which they serve.

  • Sally Patten
AMP chief executive Alexis George.

AMP cuts financial advice deal, stemming losses

The company will partially sell that business via transactions totalling $92.4 million, while the stock lifted 13 per cent after interim profit beat consensus.

  • Hannah Wootton

July

Damian Graham, who oversees $160 billion of superannuation assets, has seven direct reports.

No rate cuts and maybe a rise as inflation sticks, super funds warn

The investment chiefs of the country’s biggest funds also have a bleak outlook for Aussie shares over the next year, after global equities drove double-digit returns in FY23.

  • Hannah Wootton
Look past election noise, Anna Shelley says to superannuation investors.

Super fund savings will ride out ‘year of elections’: CIOs

But investment chiefs warn that the rise of populism or an increase in US-China tensions could flow through to short-term returns.

  • Hannah Wootton
Unlisted commercial property has been especially troublesome, but infrastructure may also prove challenging.

Don’t switch super funds until reckoning in unlisted assets is over

Industry fund executives regularly boasted about capitalising on the so-called “illiquidity premium”, but the world has changed.

  • Joanna Mather
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Anna Shelley’s punt that global equities would perform better than expected last year paid off.

Retail super funds ride tech boom to outperform industry rivals

Two of Australia’s largest retail superannuation funds delivered 11-plus per cent returns as they benefited from soaring sharemarkets.

  • Hannah Wootton
Wealthier Australians will pay more for aged care under a long-awaited government review, suggesting it may be a good time for Opal Aged Care shareholders to sell out.

$200m-a-year Opal HealthCare courts buyers; Morgan Stanley hired

While it remains to be seen how much of the business will be on offer, a big enough cheque will no doubt get everyone on board.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

June

Anthony Miller, the chief executive of business and wealth at Westpac.

Companies undeterred by failure of the Voice referendum

Big companies such as Westpac say the failure of the Voice referendum will not dissuade them from campaigning on social issues.

  • Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin

May

Boomer ‘wave’ of outflows starts to hit super

Australia’s biggest retail superannuation funds are paying out billions more dollars in cash than they are bringing in as baby boomers reach retirement age.

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  • Hannah Wootton

April

AMP’s banking division is the nation’s 12th-largest lender to households with about $22.3 billion in loans on its books as of February.

AMP quietly begins restructure for $60m digital bank project

Up to 35 jobs will be lost as 83 employees see their teams or reporting lines change.

  • Lucas Baird

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