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Macquarie finalises Waddell & Reed acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... Financial. Overall, Macquarie paid $2.3 billion for Waddell & Reed Financial, an asset management and financial planning company based in Kansas, flagging the acquisition in late 2020. In finalising the acquisition, MAM has also sold off Waddell & Reed's ...

Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... are the largest owners of farmland in the entire US, owning approximately 242,000 acres. Cascade Investment, the holding company controlled by Gates, is technically the owner of the land. The couple also owns an impressive art collection which includes ...

New partnership for BC Investment Group

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
BC Investment Group has partnered with Novatti to launch a new banking business in Australia. Payments company Novatti confirmed the $15 million strategic partnership in an announcement to the ASX. Once regulatory approval is granted, Novatti will be ...

Proxy advisers under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... in 2021 as Calderon was departing Orica claiming that his pay package of $22.3 million over a six-year period when the company's share price fell was not in the best interests of shareholders.

AMP chair faces shareholder ire

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... review, Francesco and the board were talking about future leadership, given the changing size, scale and focus of the company. Francesco decided it was time for him to retire from the role," Hazelton said. Shareholders wanted more transparency and justification ...

Disability income faces reckoning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... which has ultimately led to an erosion of profitability. "If we had true alignment in the industry, sales manager and company executives would be receiving negative bonuses each year from distributing loss-making products and destroying shareholder value. ...

Advice group chief executive exits

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
The chief executive of an ASX-listed financial advice group is set to leave the company. Angus Benbow has led Centrepoint Alliance since 2018. He will leave the company on May 28. Centrepoint did not ascribe a reason to the departure in its ASX filings. ...

OpenMarkets hires, acquires, preps for IPO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... former chief executive of Chief Executive Women and sits on the boards of Sydney Living Museums, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Knight Frank Australia, Holmart Pharmaceuticals and Murray River Organics. Rutherford was one of the founders ...

Outflows continue at IOOF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... management business, $469 million out of the $507 million total net outflows came from AET cash deposit funds' restructure. The company says the revenue differential from the change is "negligible". On pensions and investments outflows, IOOF said: "As ...

Former Australian Unity adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... Grant Thornton Wealth Advisory from October 2008 to July 2016. In reaching its decision, ASIC said Chan prioritised his company receiving commissions over the interests of his clients. It also said he is not competently trained to provide advice and ...