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BT cuts super fees by $20m

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... automatic reduction in their annual administration fee from 1 February 2022, and it estimates the savings to members will top $20 million. This fee reduction comes after BT migrated 430,000 members to a new BT Super product in what was described as an ...

More advisers fail FASEA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
Only half of the financial advisers who sat the November exam passed, making this the lowest pass rate on record. Fifty-two percent of the 2129 advisers who sat the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam were successful. The pass rate ...

Do inflows follow performance?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... of 3.3% in the 12 months to September 2020. The highest return was 24.6% and the lowest was -13.5%. The following year the top performing fund's assets nearly doubled despite its relative performance having dropped significantly. Meanwhile, the lowest ...

Number one challenge for advice firms revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... representing $24 billion in assets. Of the Australian firms, 58% cited managing compliance and regulatory changes as one of their top three operational initiatives or challenges. In the US, only 12% of firms cited compliance as a top initiative or challenge. ...

Majority of Aussie fund categories underperform: Data

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... Scorecard Mid-Year 2021, revealing that the majority of Australian fund categories overall showed weak performance persistence in top-performing funds across three- and five-year periods. While comparing active funds against their respective benchmark ...

Quinbrook acquires battery storage specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... power markets, both stand-alone and co-located with renewables," Quinbrook said. "Habitat has established itself as one of the top performing platforms amongst UK market players focusing on optimising flexible generation and storage." Habitat will be ...

Kelly Partners acquires in NSW

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... planning business on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It has 17 offices in total, eight of which Kelly said qualify in the top 100 accounting firms.

Iress to take admin reigns at ESSSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
After more than two years in the making, ESSSuper will officially cease as its own administrator in March 2022 and hand the function over to Iress. ESSSuper and Iress have been working together since late 2019 on Project Voyager, a strategic initiative ...

Mine Super appoints chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... strategy overhaul, insurer change and risk transformation," Kelly said. "These efforts see us placed as one of Australia's top performing funds over the last financial year. Our succession planning has been robust and we are very pleased to have such ...

Top investment products, super fund revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... BetaShares was named the best ETF provider with the most products shortlisted across different award categories. It featured in the top five in the Best Australian Shares Income Fund, Best Australian Shares ETF and Best International Shares ETF. Opening ...