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New chief executive at Fitzpatricks Group

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
The national advice group has appointed a new chief executive to succeed co-founder John Woodley, as he moves to an executive chair role. Jodie Blackledge has been appointed Fitzpatricks Group's chief executive. This gives her the responsibility ...

IPO Wealth trustee hit with class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
Slater and Gordon issued the embattled IPO Wealth Fund with a class action late last week. The firm will represent unitholders in the IPO Wealth Fund, which is currently being wound up by trustee Vasco Trustees after the Victorian Supreme Court ordered ...

Investment scams most profitable

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
Australians falling victim to scams rose around 20% in November, with investment scams taking the most money from consumers at around $9.5 million, according to the ACCC. In November, money lost to all types of scams rose to $18.7 million, up 20.2% ...

COVID-19 lockdown swells financial stress

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
New research reveals there is high correlation with COVID impacted industries and early super release applicants. AMP's latest research on financial stress found the two of industries most impacted by COVID-19, hospitality and retail, have the most ...

How far are we from a trillion-dollar super fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
AustralianSuper's total assets ticked up to $200 billion, after a record-new 400,000 signups in FY20 and strong performance. As at November-end, it had over 2.3 million members from around 330,000 businesses, implying about 10% of Australia's ...

SMSFs dump $30bn in shares

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
Self-managed superannuation funds have not been spared by the market impact of COVID-19, with members dumping their allocation to listed shares over the past year, new data shows. The Australian Taxation Office quarterly statistical report for September ...

UniSuper wins in court judgement on board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
The Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday decided in favour of the $83 billion industry fund after a union asked the court to decide on its rights in nominating a director for the UniSuper board. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) on September ...

US regulator, states sue Facebook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
Facebook appears unfazed by antitrust lawsuits filed by 46 US states and the Federal Trade Commission seeking to force the social media giant to divest key assets, labelling the actions 'revisionist history'. The FTC and 48 Attorneys General ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will open a second infrastructure region in Australia next year, assisting the financial services industry to run applications and serve end users from data centres around the country. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region ...

Acadian hires from Macquarie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
Acadian Asset Management is growing its research team with a new appointment. Steven Wong has been named vice president of research and associate portfolio manager. He will be responsible for researching Australian and global quantitative equity portfolios ...