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Centrepoint Alliance to acquire Brighter Super's advice book

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Centrepoint Alliance has entered into an agreement to acquire the comprehensive advice book from ESI Financial Services, a wholly owned entity of Brighter Super. The transaction will see up to 400 clients, generating $1 million in annual revenue, transition ...

ANSC's Australian Food & Agriculture takeover tanks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filings that the parties "mutually determined to terminate the business combination agreement due to increasingly volatile equity market conditions". AFA's portfolio comprises agricultural assets in New South Wales' ...

HUB24 sees record quarterly inflows of $4.9bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
HUB24 saw record platform inflows in Q3 of $4.9 billion, thanks to the large migration of $1.3 billion from Clearview WealthFoundations to HUB24 Super. Total funds under administration (FUA) reached $124.1 billion, up 24% on the prior corresponding ...

NGS Super to launch lifetime income product

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
NGS Super has partnered with Challenger to provide guaranteed lifetime income for members. The agreement will give the super fund's 32,000 members aged over 55 "greater certainty" through blending an account-based pension with a guaranteed, regular ...

Apex awarded $2.3bn fund admin mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... superannuation business to administer Diversa Trustees $7 billion master trust business at the start of the month. Under the agreement, Mutual Limited's adviser network will benefit from Apex's streamlined portal for "greater visibility, faster transaction ...

AMP shareholders approve executive pay

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
AMP shareholders overwhelmingly approved the 2025 remuneration and chief executive Alexis George's long-term incentives after the company rejigged its remuneration framework. Shareholders voted in favour of adopting the remuneration report at 93.2% ...

Qantas Super, ART merger official

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
... LinkedIn. Qantas Super announced it was exploring merger options in September 2023, and that it had entered into an agreement to merge with ART in July 2024. "Qantas Super was founded in 1939 to provide retirement benefits to Qantas Group employees. ...

Queensland adviser banned for five years

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
A Queensland financial adviser has been banned by ASIC for failing to act in the best interests of his clients and failing to prioritise their interests. Grant Thomson is banned from providing financial services, controlling an entity that carries on ...

Plenary names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
... United Arab Emirates into an Australian company since the signing of the Australia-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, further reinforcing bilateral ties between the two nations," Oppenheim said. "The establishment of Plenary Middle East ...

Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... references in its cabinet. One of Trump's first moves when he assumed office was to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. The rejection of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2030 are other recent examples. While Australia ...