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Newcastle advice firm joins Count Financial

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
A Newcastle-based financial advice firm is the latest to join the Count Financial network. Serendipity Wealth Advisors launched in February 2021 by directors Christine Lusher and Norma Samson. The duo worked together early in their careers. Lusher previously ...

Natixis hires sales director from First Sentier

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
Natixis Investment Managers hired an institutional sales director who spent nearly a decade at First Sentier Investors. Sydney-based Edward Tighe joined Natixis IM in October. He finished up as director of institutional business at First Sentier, formerly ...

Fidelity moves on net zero

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
Fidelity International launched a climate investing policy with a rating scheme in a bid to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. The policy includes the introduction of Climate Ratings which assess the net zero targets and alignment of investments. They ...

Taxpayer Bill of Rights recommended

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue has recommended that the Australian Tax Office develop a Bill of Rights for taxpayers. The committee made 19 recommendations in response to the Commissioner of Taxation's Annual ...

Super executives switching options in conflict: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
ASIC has released the results of surveillance into investment switching by super fund executives during market volatility at the start of the pandemic, finding possible conflicts of interest. ASIC looked at a sample of 23 trustees (including trustees ...

Future Fund hits $199 billion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
Future Fund's latest portfolio update shows the sovereign wealth fund is just shy of hitting $200 billion. "After the exceptional 22% return in 2020-21, the Future Fund continued to grow in the September 2021 quarter. Delivering a 10-year return of ...

Joining the 1% around the world: Analysis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
New analysis reveals that Australians would have to work 66 years and five months to join the country's wealthiest 1%, while Chinese workers would need more than 101 years in the workforce to join China's 1%. In a stark illustration of wealth inequality ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
It wasn't so long ago - before the COVID-19 pandemic struck to be precise - that every other central bank around the planet were hopin' and wishin' and prayin' for consumer price inflation to, at the very least, move higher to within ...

HESTA pushes for net zero legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
The federal government's refusal to commit to net zero by 2050 will lead to Australia losing a massive amount of green foreign investment, superannuation fund HESTA warned. At a recent Investor Group on Climate Change event, HESTA chief executive Debby ...

Pinnacle backs investment platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
Pinnacle Investment Management has made a $3 million cornerstone investment in OpenInvest. Melbourne-based fintech OpenInvest said it will use the funding to increase staff numbers to continue the roll out of its investment administration technology ...