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Wealthy overlook digital experience

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
Wealthy investors tend to shun technology and prefer to keep track of their assets manually, according to Praemium. The survey, conducted with Investment Trends, suggests a minority of high-net-worth investors (11%) access an online digital portal and ...

Longo's ASIC less aggressive: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
Despite a flood of litigation following the Royal Commission, a new report from Herbert Smith Freehills says Joe Longo's ASIC is taking a less aggressive enforcement approach than its contemporaries. Herbert Smith Freehills' Global Financial Services ...

FPA names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
The Financial Planning Association of Australia announced who will take over Dante De Gori as chief executive. Sarah Abood takes the post in mid-January 2022, leaving behind her role as chief operating officer of HOPE Housing Funds Management, a not-for-profit ...

Majority of Aussie fund categories underperform: Data

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
S&P Dow Jones Indices Australia has today released its Persistence 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. ...

Quinbrook acquires battery storage specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
Renewable energy infrastructure investor Quinbrook Investment Partners has acquired a UK-based battery storage trading platform. Quinbrook has acquired Habitat Energy, a specialist in battery storage optimisation based in Oxford, UK. It will support ...

3PD, Haven Green ink partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
Haven Green and 3PD have entered into a back-to-back alliance agreement. The new agreement means 3PD will represent Haven Green Investment Managers in Australia and New Zealand and Haven Green will represent 3PD's managers in Europe, Middle East, Asia ...

Clime partners for $330m SMAs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
Clime Investment Management has partnered with a managed accounts specialist to create a $330 million product. On December 2, Ralton Asset Management and Clime entered an exclusive agreement to combine their separately managed accounts businesses. The ...

Backlash after 'unprecedented' ASIC action against Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
An industry group for independent financial advisers and lawyers have come out criticising Westpac over the six cases brought against it by ASIC. Slater and Gordon Lawyers is calling on Westpac to 'walk the talk', after Westpac's chief executive Peter ...

Lonsec bolsters sales team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
Research house Lonsec has grown its sales team, including appointing a new head of sales. John Burton steps into the head of sales position. He was previously national sales manager at OnePath before more recently establishing his own wealth firm - ...

Tribeca Financial acquires advice practice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2021
A Financial Standard Power50 financial adviser and practice owner has sold his firm to Tribeca Financial. As of today, Lime FP is part of Melbourne-based Tribeca. This will see Lime FP's principal adviser and founder Nathan Fradley become a senior ...