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Aware Super bolsters strategy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
Aware Super has expanded its investment strategy team with the hire of four new specialists and has set up a new investment risk division. Two new hires will play a founding role in a new investment risk team, with the other two supplementing the macro ...

Investors flock to conservative ETFs: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
Stockspot founder and chief executive Chris Brycki says the global macroeconomic backdrop has shifted investor trends, causing an uptake in conservative ETFs. Investors have faced varying challenges over the past 12 months and, speaking on the latest ...

Former industry execs launch analytics firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
A new superannuation and investment analytics firm has officially launched, with a few familiar faces at its helm. In the works for some time, Jefferson & Shea Analytics brings together David Braga, Raewyn Williams and Peter Murphy, and offers a fee ...

Treasury hands PwC tax scandal to AFP

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
A formal investigation into the embattled PwC will commence following Treasury's referral to the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Australian Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy announced the matter, in which PwC senior partners shared information ...

Sony to list financial services business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
Sony is set to partially spin-off its financial services arm, a diversified unit operating in life insurance, banking and venture capital. Sony Financial Group Inc (SFGI), which operates in life and non-life insurance, banking, nursing care and venture ...

Macquarie terminates alternatives fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
Macquarie decided to close the fund after identifying significant increases in management fees would need to be incurred by the investor to keep it running sustainably. The investment manager said a strategic review determined the Macquarie Professional ...

Consulting triopoly dominates NFP super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
Australia's top three asset consultants dominate the not-for-profit superannuation sector, serving 84% of the market. According to Rainmaker Information, JANA, Frontier and Willis Towers Watson (WTW) now control 84% of the advised NFP superannuation ...

Experience pathway could create two adviser tiers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
There are concerns that the proposed experience pathway legislation could create two tiers of financial advisers and confuse consumers about who is and isn't qualified to provide advice. As Treasury mulls over finalising education standards for ...

ASIC bans former Gleneagle fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
ASIC has banned former Gleneagle fund manager, Gregory Tolpigin, from providing financial services for naked short selling. Tolpigin is also banned from controlling a financial services business or performing any function involved in carrying on a financial ...

Farewell Michael Harrison

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
A veteran of the Australian financial services sector, Michael Harrison is being remembered as a teacher, mentor, and unrelenting advocate for risk advisers after he passed away on Sunday morning, aged 78. Harrison enjoyed a varied and colourful career. ...