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Practice valuations avoid COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... said. "But really, a quality financial planning business today is probably selling for a very similar price to what it was six months ago." Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan agreed, and said the majority of the impact on valuations ...

HESTA awards investment data mandate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and assisting the super fund to use a greater variety of data sources. The data management service is to be set up in under six months, and will bring together data from HESTA's middle and back offices and investment consulting providers, as well as ...

Processes are the problem, not people: Count Financial

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... into a more profitable business, including implementing new technological solutions to improve efficiencies. Over the last six months, Count Financial has been transitioning to become the "licensee of the future", enhancing its offerings with technological ...

CountPlus acquires firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... in effect. "Count Financial has transformed as a business, and while we're proud of what we've achieved in the past six months, we have a busy agenda of new initiatives to continue to roll out," Kennedy said at the time. "We not only enable our ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... requests within five days. For instance, of the 12174 requests from Intrust Super members, 8795 were paid but 73.2% took between six and nine days for the fund to fulfil. ING Superannuation Fund received 4575 requests. Of those, 3677 were paid but 46.5% ...

Trust in big four improves

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... quarter. Bendigo Bank, which ranked first at the end of 2019, slipped to fifth place in the quarter. Trust in AMP increased by six points in the quarter, however it still has a negative rating of -8. The only bank with a lower rating than AMP is Bank ...

Suncorp wealth head departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... of COVID-19 on its operations and revealed the preliminary results of a pay and leave entitlements review it flagged in a six month account review late last year. So far, the probe has uncovered inconsistencies in Suncorp's rostering and pay systems ...

Government delays RC implementation timeline

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
The government has deferred the implementation of Royal Commission recommendations by six months. The amended timetable sees measures the government was committed to deliver by June 30 set to arrive by December, and measures scheduled for December now ...

Dividends take hit, but will recover

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... existing shareholders," Price said. Dividends too will rebound faster than that seen during the GFC, he argued. "Over the next six months dividends may fall slightly more than the GFC as a result of a number of companies suspending their dividends temporarily," ...

Prodigy boutique to continue

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... Prodigy decided to shut in March. On March 18, Steve Tucker's Prodigy Investment Partners closed its doors after about six years of operation, after its joint venture partner Euroz pulled out. At the time, two of Prodigy's three boutique partners ...