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L1 Group sells Platinum's responsible entity to Equity Trustees
|L1 Group has offloaded Platinum Investment Management Limited (PIML) to Equity Trustees (EQT), handing over the responsible entity (RE) role for the Platinum funds while keeping investment management in-house.
LGT poaches Koda Capital's top-rated adviser
|LGT Wealth Management has poached Koda Capital's 2025 top-rated adviser and partner Frank Macindoe.
CareSuper rejigs beneficiary nominations, investment options
|CareSuper has introduced several changes to its investment options and beneficiary nominations.
Fortnum pays $1.35m to settle ASIC lawsuit
|Fortnum Private Wealth will pay a penalty of $1.35 million and ASIC's costs to resolve legal proceedings against the firm over a cyber governance matter which occurred between April 2021 and May 2023.
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ETF Shares chief executive Cliff Man spent his career automating, building and challenging established systems. Now, he is betting that Australia's ETF market has room for something different. Vinny Vucago writes.
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The disappointing aspect of the government's approach to regulation in the financial services arena, is that they are perpetually looking in the rear-view mirror and 'fixing' what they perceive to be wrong: the dog is chasing it's tail.
What is needed is a 'clean sheet' approach involving collaboration between the legislators, regulators, providers, advisers and clients to design a 'system' to meet a community need.
Coincidentally, many of the necessary elements are in place; regrettably, their implementation has been haphazard, onerous, costly and poorly communicated.
Our practice - and the team comprising it - cope with the change by keeping the one focus that has always been the purpose of our existence, on our clients, their best interests and to do so as 'professionally' as possible, ethically, transparently and as well communicatred as we can.