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DomaCom chief executive John Elkovich steps down

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... which provides specialist strategic advice services, covering areas like capital raising, marketing and implementation, product distribution and implementation, digital transformation and corporate change management. Moreover, he's been on the boards ...

Best default super funds revealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... in funds under management just over a year after its launch in October 2022, alongside the quiet rollout of a pension product. Close behind, Essential Super's Employer - Lifestage 1980-1984 option, managed by Colonial First State (CFS) for its investment ...

Advice PDMs, BDMs at inflection point: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... spread too thinly, being asked to service too many advisers, thus limiting their ability to add true value. "As licensees, product manufacturers and investment platforms think through their optimal adviser proposition for the future, it will be absolutely ...

ASIC takes further action on Prospero

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... foreign exchange contracts, deal in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts on behalf of clients and provide financial product advice in relation to these instruments. ASIC has asked the court to appoint Andrew Cummins, Jonathon Keenan, and Peter ...

Iress loses key wealth executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... financial software and data firm after just six months as it struggles to lift profits. The departure of Haqqani, chief product and operating officer for Iress' wealth business, comes as the firm reported a bottom-line loss of $137.5 million for ...

Platinum plans turnaround, FUM dwindles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... reorganisation of the investment research function, portfolio construction and risk management processes, and existing product design. Despite the changes, Platinum stressed that its "investment philosophy will not change". The half-year to December ...

Annuities too expensive for most retirees: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... combine the characteristics of account-based pensions, it added - however, providers would have to "vastly improve their product communications" to make this happen.

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... From March 2022 to June 2023, MSC, as trustee and responsible entity of the Bloom Fund, made statements in the fund's product disclosure statement (PDS) that said the fund would seek to avoid the investment of the fund's assets in a range of excluded ...

GBST upgrades WealthConnect platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
GBST has enhanced its WealthConnect platform, introducing the capability to model interactive superannuation, pension, and self-managed super fund (SMSF) strategies. In May 2023, GBST acquired WealthConnect from Creativemass, a financial software provider ...

Vanguard Super hits $1bn, soft launches pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... comprising an account-based pension, SpendSmart, and a transition to retirement option, TransitionSmart. Like the accumulation product, they both offer the choice of a default Lifecycle option, or more confident investors can elect specific investment ...