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Super performance test needs personal rate of return: Adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
APRA's annual superannuation performance test fails to consider results where it truly matters - at the member level - and ends up missing the mark on ensuring positive member outcomes, according to a financial advice expert advocating for better ...

Independent MPs call for super reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... they said highlights the negative impact this would have on small businesses, start-ups, farmers, and self-managed super fund (SMSF) members. Tink, the member for North Sydney, introduced amendments to the bill, saying that including unrealised capital ...

APRA reprimands Cbus, BUSSQ over governance issues

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
APRA has imposed additional licence conditions on Cbus and BUSSQ over governance concerns in the wake of the CFMEU scandal. The prudential regulator's additional licence conditions stipulate that Cbus' trustee, United Super, and BUSSQ bring ...

How many advisers will Australia have in 2044?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
The financial advice sector could see the number of registered advisers sink to 11,000 and as low as 5500 in 20 years' time, Rainmaker Information predicts. These are some of the scenarios forecasted in the Rainmaker Adviser report. A more optimistic ...

Acquisitions boost WT Financial Group results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
Major acquisitions, including the takeover of Millennium3, helped WT Financial Group (WTL) boost performance in the 2024 financial year. Releasing preliminary results this morning, WTL founder and managing director Keith Cullen said revenue for the ...

AFCA urges super trustees to improve processes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) said the average loss on a superannuation scam complaint was just under $90,000. AFCA said of the nearly 11,000 complaints in relation to scams last financial year, less than 20 came from superannuation ...

Monash Investors merges with DMX AM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
Monash Investors has confirmed the completed merger with DMX Asset Management as of August 12. Following the merger, DMX AM portfolio manager Michael Haddad has been named co-portfolio manager with Monash Investors. "Michael hit the ground running ...

BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas back carbon credits fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
The ASX-listed companies have poured $80 million into a new Australian carbon credits fund from Silva Capital. The Silva Carbon Origination Fund is one of the first funds in Australia to invest in large-scale, high-integrity Australian Carbon Credit ...

Vanguard, Betashares, iShares neck and neck in battle for inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... Shares Currency Hedged ETF ($194 million). On the flip side, the products with the highest outflows were the Magellan Global Fund (Open Class) (Managed Fund) shedding $852 million, Betashares Legg Mason Emerging Markets Fund (Managed Fund) losing $127 ...

First Sentier farewells senior portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
First Sentier Investors' high-profile small companies team has lost one of its longest-serving members. The small and mid-cap fund group led by Dawn Kanelleas has farewelled senior portfolio manager Pavlos Totsis. Totsis - along with Kanelleas and ...