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Super performance test needs personal rate of return: Adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
APRA's annual superannuation performance test fails to consider results where it truly matters - at the member level - and ends up missing the mark on ensuring positive member outcomes, according to a financial advice expert advocating for better ...

Future Group joins campaign to ban gambling ads

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... of super funds including Guild Super and Verve, are supporting the campaign, which is spearheaded by fintech trading platform, SIX. SIX has teamed up with not-for-profit group Alliance for Gambling Reform (AGR) to put pressure on Seven West and Nine ...

Cost cutting returns Bravura to profit

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... continue to leverage best-in-class technologies, while allowing us to streamline and simplify our enterprise Sonata software platform for the betterment of our other existing and new enterprise wealth clients. Fidelity is a key client of ours and one ...

Janus Henderson to buy private credit manager Victory Park Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... company's growing insurance clientele." Janus Henderson also said that its institutional and private wealth distribution platform as well as its "significant relationships" with financial intermediaries will support the distribution and development of ...

Russell Investments appoints global head of alternatives

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... appointment of Ayesha Parra as global head of alternatives to lead the overall business strategy for the firm's alternatives platform globally. Parra, who joined in July, leads a team of alternatives specialists who incorporate private markets into the ...

How many advisers will Australia have in 2044?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
The financial advice sector could see the number of registered advisers sink to 11,000 and as low as 5500 in 20 years' time, Rainmaker Information predicts. These are some of the scenarios forecasted in the Rainmaker Adviser report. A more optimistic ...

Expand bolsters SMA menu

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
BlackRock, DNR Capital, Elston, Lonsec and Zenith have been added to the Expand Extra menu, doubling the wrap platform's separately managed account (SMA) offerings. The additional investment managers complement the current fleet of MLC Asset Management ...

Netwealth FUA nears $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... $583,000, driven by high-net-worth (HNW) and private clients. Nearly 3800 financial intermediaries are using the Netwealth platform. Netwealth's client base is made up of 61% retail investors, 22% are HNWs, 10.2% are ultra HNWs and family offices ...

Iress snags Insignia Financial executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... structure will centre around four dedicated lines of business: asset management, superannuation (master trust), wrap platform and advice. Interestingly, Insignia recently appointed Dave Woodall as chief executive of super starting in November. Before ...

AMP sells advice licensees to Entireti, AZ NGA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... which has significantly lifted adviser satisfaction. At the same time, we've considerably strengthened the North platform proposition to be compelling for both AMP advisers and independent financial advisers. "Advisers will benefit from the combined ...