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AMP North launches new tool

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... providing multi-asset portfolio management and investment consulting services to wealth advice practices and superannuation funds. The new Activam options include Activam Conservative and Income Portfolio, Activam Moderate Portfolio, Activam Index-Focused ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... LGSS website that suggests that the claims that there was, for example, 'No way' Active Super would invest members funds in gambling, tobacco and so on, was to be read subject to a proviso that there was a way in which it would do exactly that ...

Australian Unity lashed by ASIC over TMD questionnaire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
Australian Unity Funds Management has been told to stop offering its Select Income Fund, with ASIC saying retail clients are unlikely to understand the questionnaire used to determine whether they would be in the target market. ASIC made an interim ...

EQT updates on Australian Executor Trustees acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... Equity Trustees announced its intention to exit the AET platform business and outsource the administration of the Small APRA Funds (SAFs) business - a portfolio of more than 400 funds and $600 million of assets. EQT said the changes were a critical driver ...

QIC adds to streak of venture capital investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... firm Brandon Capital. Yesterday, Financial Standard reported that QIC's venture capital development fund (QVCDF) committed funds to technology investment firm Tidal Ventures. QVCDF provided a binding term sheet to support Sprint Ventures' upcoming Sprint ...

ETFs dominate client portfolios: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are dominating client portfolios as nine out of 10 financial advisers continue to recommend them to clients, a new study shows. The 2024 Trends in Investing report reveals that more than 60% of advisers will up clients' ...

Hostplus rejigs Maritime Super insurance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... to its large and growing membership base, which allows them to offer more competitive insurance rates than smaller super funds. The industry super fund, which crossed the $100 billion assets under management threshold last year, has nearly two million ...

Equity Trustees hit with fine by APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (FSCODA) by failing to report data by the required deadlines for two funds under its trusteeship, AMG Super and Super Simplifier. APRA said EQT lodged nine reporting forms 50 days late for AMG Super ...

Monochrome launches Bitcoin ETF amid first-mover dispute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... cryptocurrency." The assets are securely stored offline in institutional-grade storage facilities with Coinbase. Notably, custody funds are segregated from other parts of Coinbase's business, ensuring they are protected in case of bankruptcy. Additionally ...

Ironbark partners with HarbourVest to launch fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... markets landscape, Donald said, an increasing number of investors are considering alternatives to traditional closed-end funds. The fund is expected to deliver attractive benefits to investors and addresses some of the limitations presented by closed-end ...