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Adviser sentenced to eight years' prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... lifestyle, including $72,000 which was used to purchase and maintain a boat. Synchron director Don Trapnell told Financial Standard Dick's authorisation was ceased after he sent an email to Synchron admitting to wrongdoing. Trapnell said the admission ...

Active portfolios post stellar returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... benchmark delivered 6.4%, beating it almost fivefold. Vision Super chief investment officer Michael Wyrsch told Financial Standard that it has been a "tremendous period" for the Innovation and Disruption Option, but is cognisant that such stellar performance ...

Superhero sets eyes on managed accounts

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... of the security that CHESS brings and then we use our platform to run the individual accounts," Winters told Financial Standard. This omnibus or pooled structure brings with it massive efficiency, he said, allowing the platform to pass on cost efficiencies ...

BT head of platforms departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... when BT is undertaking a strategic review of a number of business divisions, including its platforms business. Financial Standard profiled Kotsopoulos earlier this year, reflecting on her career in financial services and what kept her at BT all these ...

Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... care package now have access to some form of in-home support." But Aged Care Gurus principal Rachel Lane told Financial Standard it just isn't good enough. "Only 2000 of the new packages are at level four, which is the highest level of care and the ...

Benchmark-lagging LIC faces strategic review

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... (3.3%), Verizon Communications (3%, Taiwan Semiconductor (2.8%) and Sony (2.7%). A spokesperson for the fund told Financial Standard that TGG has approximately $270 million in funds under management, with a little over 4500 shareholders.

Waislitz pokes holes in OneVue bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... voted against accepting the offer, and are asking other shareholders to vote it down too, as first flagged by Financial Standard on Tuesday. OneVue has maintained an independent expert put the valuation per share at 36 cents to 43 cents - and both of ...

Industry fund doubles down on fee cuts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... on a $50,000 balance. Vision Personal's low cost, low carbon Sustainable balanced option was the winner of Financial Standard sister publication Money magazine's 'Best of the best' award for the lowest cost superannuation platform. The total fees on ...

Super-backed company develops COVID treatment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... New Zealand state and federal governments and more than 50 leading medical research institutes. HESTA told Financial Standard that it has committed approximately $185 million to medical research through its investments with Brandon Capital. "HESTA members ...

Super funds squander member money: Bragg

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... was particularly critical of Industry Super Australia spending $40 million last year on advertising. ISA told Financial Standard in the past that it has not increased its marketing budget over the years (as at 18 March 2019) and declined to disclose ...