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ASI bolsters SMA service

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... Kelly agrees: "Partnering with ASI to deliver bespoke SMA solutions will make recent and future periods of market instability far more manageable for our member firms and independent financial adviser partners." ASI Australia managing director Brett ...

Six Park, Rollit Wealth announce partnership

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... start or grow your path to financial wellbeing is important - particularly as services like ours make investment management far more accessible to people than has been the case in the past," Aranwela said. "As employers, helping your team in this way ...

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... unlikely to increase rapidly if the membership is expanded to six. Thorp says even though four members have been allowed, so far majority of SMSFs (93%) only had two or fewer members in 2017-18 according to ATO. "This pattern of membership, where 7% ...

Westpac reaches $1.3bn AUSTRAC deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... underlines the importance of the Federal Government acting on its commitment to pass the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR)." "Individual executives will not be able to hide behind large corporate pay-outs. This new regime will ensure that executives ...

MLC Wealth risk lead departs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
A chief risk officer at MLC Wealth has departed the business, with an acting chief appointed for the interim. Julia Pryor finished in her role as acting chief risk officer for the retirement and investment solutions and platforms division at MLC Wealth ...

AMP Capital launches infra debt strategy

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
AMP Capital has launched a new infrastructure debt strategy, set to help investors capitalise on emerging growth opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. The Infrastructure Debt Asia Pacific strategy will target infrastructure mezzanine debt opportunities ...

Retail fund satisfaction drops

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... $10,000 in funds in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated shutdowns," Levine said. "The volatile share-markets so far during 2020 as well as the withdrawal of around $33 billion so far have placed immense pressure on Australia's superannuation ...

Chief economist update: Dan defeats second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... 922 cases Monday. Recall that many European countries re-opened sometime in June. To paraphrase Andrews, Europe has come too far, given too much, and are now seeing it wasted. Worse, the "opened again, closed again" uncertainty of it all prevents future ...

Contango approves new WCM strategy

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... will now be respected by all shareholders." It comes after WAM bid to manage the LIC, at the time arguing its proposal was far superior to that endorsed by the board of CIE. "Our proposal is to reposition CIE following a history of poor performance for ...

Chief economist update: Yoshihide and the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
So far fresh Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga is off to a good start. The Prime Minister takes over from Shinzo Abe at a time when the global economy appears to have seen the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Many governments have eased/lifted ...