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Drummond Capital names new research head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... supporting portfolio construction and strategy for the multi-asset investment manager's high-net-worth, family office and financial intermediary clients. She joined Drummond Capital in 2022 as an analyst but was quickly promoted to senior analyst ...

Activist investor hires distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... shareholders to unlock value for shareholders and investors. Its latest targets include Southern Cross Media Group, Magellan Financial Group, COG Financial Services and oil and gas explorer Karoon Energy - all now facing pressure from the vocal shareholder. ...

Acenda hires from Hostplus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... in its drive for growth in group insurance. Sammartino, who began this week, brings nearly 30 years of experience in financial services, including superannuation, banking, and business development. He has held leadership positions at ME Bank, LUCRF Super ...

Fees for no service see former adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
A former financial adviser is now banned for 10 years after she was found to have knowingly charged fees for no service. Kiriley Roper was a director, shareholder and adviser at Lighthouse Partners in Redcliffe, Queensland. ASIC alleges that between ...

AMP hit with multiple court filings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... Property Fund. AMP said it also plans to defend these proceedings. Commenting on the case, a Dexus spokesperson told Financial Standard : "Dexus continues to act in the best interests of investors. Dexus has lodged a claim against AMP in relation to ...

Aware Super delivers double digit returns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... a return of 11.9% for its Future Saver High Growth option - its default MySuper option for under 55s - for the 2025 financial year. Retirees invested in Aware's Conservative Balanced option also enjoyed strong performance with the pension option achieving ...

HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
HESTA's MySuper Balanced Growth option has delivered 10.18% for the 2024/25 financial year, with the fund crediting the performance of listed equities and prudent management of market volatility for the result. The outcome represents the third consecutive ...

ASIC targets advisers, platforms, research houses in super switching scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
ASIC warns it will take a deeper dive into the roles that financial advisers, superannuation platforms and research houses are playing in members being pushed into high-risk investment schemes. The corporate regulator is closely looking at the entire ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
While Australia's chief financial officers are confident the economy has passed its low point, this doesn't necessarily stretch to their own business performance over the next 12 months. Deloitte's biannual CFO Sentiment report gathers responses from ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
A former company director has received a prison sentence after he was found to have continued to run a financial services business despite having been banned from doing so. In 2018, Joshua Fuoco was found to have engaged in misleading and deceptive ...