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Investment boutique calls time after seven years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Wheelhouse Investment Partners is closing its doors, having decided it's no longer financially sustainable to continue operating its funds. Wheelhouse Investment Partners was founded in May 2017 as a specialist income manager by Alastair MacLeod ...

Lost super bill sits at $18bn: ATO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Despite the Australian Taxation Office's best efforts, there is still close to $18 billion in superannuation yet to be reunited with those who earned it. That's according to the latest figures, which show there's currently $17.8 billion in lost and ...

Aussie female fund manager representation lags: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Only 8% of Australia's funds management industry is run by women, lagging the global average of 12.5%, the latest Alpha Female Report finds. Citywire's annual analysis, which tracks the progress of gender parity in asset management, calculated 903 Australian ...

AMP BOLR litigants face lengthy payout process

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Despite the Federal Court greenlighting the AMP Buyer of Last Resort (BOLR) lawsuit settlement amount, there is still a long way to go before financial advisers can have peace of mind with the payout process to potentially draw out to mid-2025. This ...

Pre-retirees expect less reliance on Age Pension: Investment Trends

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Most Australians anticipate they will fund only 12% of their retirement income with the Age Pension, but the reality is retirees currently need nearly double that amount, a new study from Investment Trends finds. A survey of more than 5600 participants ...

Regal sets eyes on Platinum takeover

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Platinum Asset Management has confirmed it received a non-binding indicative proposal from Regal Partners. Platinum said it received the unsolicited proposal from Regal to acquire all the shares in Platinum via a scheme of arrangement. Under the offer ...

WAM tells investors it 'got the call wrong'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Portfolio managers for the Wilson Asset Management (WAM) Leaders Fund, Matthew Haupt and John Ayoub, admitted they "got the call wrong" when they took a 4% stake in embattled Star Casino just last year. Now WAM is pushing for the casino operator to ...

Janus Henderson to manage new tokenised treasury fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... will partner with tokenisation platform Centrifuge and its asset management arm, Anemoy, to manage Anemoy's Liquid Treasury Fund (LTF), a fully on-chain, tokenised fund. The US$360 billion asset manager will serve as a sub-adviser to the LTF, which will ...

China to raise retirement age from 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
For the first time since the 1970s, China will begin "gradually raising" the national retirement age from next year as it looks to stretch a dwindling pension budget further to sustain its ageing population. The country has approved proposals to raise ...

Growing super balances show more work to be done: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
New research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) shows that while super balances are largely growing, there's still plenty to be done to ensure positive retirement outcomes for all. ASFA's An update on superannuation account ...