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HNWI collecting activity stoops: Knight Frank

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... Duthy said. A Rolex John Player Special broke the model record when it sold for £2 million ($3.8 million) at Sotheby's in May, double the price of a similar example sold at Phillips in 2021. According to the index, jewellery had another strong year ...

UniSuper creates lead governance, compliance role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
A key Morningstar executive is taking on the newly created role in May. Annika Bradley has been appointed senior manager, investment specialist (policy and advice) at UniSuper. She is currently director, manager research ratings for Asia Pacific at ...

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... seeking to avoid investments in those activities." ASIC said the Bloom fund invested in General Electric from March 2022 to May 2023. During the 2022 financial year, General Electric derived 16% of its revenue from fossil fuels, ASIC said. General Electric ...

Major decline in group insurance coverage: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... without insurance cover, with the near complete lack of default TPD cover for those aged under 25 a concerning issue that may have broader ramifications for the welfare system."

GBST upgrades WealthConnect platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... introducing the capability to model interactive superannuation, pension, and self-managed super fund (SMSF) strategies. In May 2023, GBST acquired WealthConnect from Creativemass, a financial software provider that ceased operations. At the time, GBST ...

DASS settlement pending court approval, victims urged to claim

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... counsel Matthew Kennedy and director Michael Chapman warned. "If or when Dixon Advisory ceases to be a member of AFCA, which may be on or after 8 April 2024, the ability to claim against it in AFCA will lapse. Any Dixon Advisory clients who have not ...

Jo-Anne Bloch to chair CSLR

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... CSLR. "As an interim step, amendments have been made to AFCA's authorisation so that, to the extent possible, complaints that may be eligible under the CSLR are progressed only if the financial services firm was licensed to provide the relevant product ...

Canna Campbell slapped with $114k legal bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... registered trademark, "Financial Foreplay", by using it on social media platforms and podcasts between 12 February 2020 to 15 May 2021. In one example, Justice Manousaridis said: "The screenshots record images of the "SugarMamma's Financial Foreplay" ...

Warren Buffet honours Charlie Munger in Berkshire shareholder letter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... Buffet said Berkshire's ability to immediately respond to market seizures with both huge sums and certainty of performance may offer an occasional large-scale opportunity. "Though the stock market is massively larger than it was in our early years, today's ...

Super funds in pole position for expanded advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... chief executive Sarah Abood said there is less immediacy for banks and life insurers to enter advice. "Banks [in particular], may feel that they've been burned on advice and may require a fair bit of certainty to entice them back into the advice ...