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Ignition Advice appoints chief platform, technology officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
Ignition Advice has strengthened its global executive team with the appointment of Enda Mahoney as chief platform and technology officer. He will be based in Sydney and report to Ignition Group chief executive Terry Donohoe. In the newly created role ...

HESTA generates 9.59% investment return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
HESTA has delivered a 9.59% return for its balanced growth investment option. The balanced growth investment option, which most of the industry fund's one million members are invested in, was buoyed by strong equity market performance, bolstered by ...

Frontier calls for better unlisted asset valuations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
Frontier Advisors is collaborating with Australian asset owners to hold fund managers to account regarding the accurate valuation of unlisted assets. The consulting firm was spurned to action amid robust growth in the superannuation sector, with an ...

AustralianSuper posts solid return for FY23

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
AustralianSuper has posted an 8.22% return for its balanced investment option. Of note, the Rainmaker MySuper performance index benchmark is likely to yield a return around 9%. AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney said that the fund ...

Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... accidental injury insurance. Howden will also have to pay $100,000 in penalties. Select sold the products issued by St Andrew's Life Insurance under the brand names Let's Insure and FlexiSure. Parent company Bank of Queensland sold St Andrew's to Farmcove ...

Allegro unveils PwC entity as Scyne Advisory

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... the transition. An independent board of directors will be established for the new entity, with former Federal Court judge Andrew Greenwood joining as a non-executive director. Allegro further confirmed that candidates for an independent chair and non-executive ...

FAAA celebrates membership renewals, anticipates more

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has received over 8700 membership renewals, with more to come, according to chief executive Sarah Abood. The end of financial year marked a critical membership juncture for the association, Abood noted. ...

ASIC permanently bans David Sutton

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
ASIC has permanently banned David Sutton from providing any financial services and disqualified him from managing corporations for five years. The regulator also cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of McFaddens Securities, now ...

ART delivers 10% for members

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... members are invested in, benefitted from equity markets rebounding, which according to ART head of investment strategy Andrew Fisher, broadly achieved 10% to 20% over the period. "We tried to build diversified active, outperforming portfolios," Fisher ...

More assets held in Choice over MySuper: APRA figures

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
More member assets are held in Choice products than in MySuper options, according to quarterly superannuation industry statistics by APRA. As of March 31, Choice products held $1.09 trillion of the total member assets held in APRA-regulated funds ($2.1 ...