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Federal Court appoints receivers to investigate Brite Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
The Federal Court has appointed Linda Smith and Robert Kirman of McGrathNicol as corporate receivers to probe Brite Advisors, following serious concerns about the management of client pension funds. Smith and Kirman will investigate Brite Advisors and ...

Citi broadens custody offering

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... Standard, Citi recently facilitated the ASX listing of three dual-access core equities strategy ETFs for Dimensional Fund Advisors. Notably, Citi has been the custodian and fund administrator for Dimensional since 2012. "We were delighted to support ...

Advisers, accountants ramp up partnerships

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... starting". In November, Prosperity Advisers Group merged with a Brisbane-based accounting firm P+Y Accountants and Business Advisors. ASX-listed Count ramped up its acquisition of accounting firms in 2023. This included acquiring Canberra-based Allan ...

Frontier restructures, promotes

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
Frontier Advisors has redesigned its research structure and promoted internal talent into a number of new roles including a new deputy research director. Responding to a shift in focus by its institutional investor client base, the asset consultant ...

Super funds missing out on rich returns from Aussie agriculture

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023
... as from Japan and Europe. The $3.2 billion boutique asset manager's assumptions are supported by last year's Frontier Advisors' report on private markets investment opportunities, which flagged foreign pension funds' "strong interest" in Australian agriculture ...

Dimensional launches inaugural ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023
Dimensional Fund Advisors has, for the first time, forayed into the local exchange-traded funds (ETFs) market, launching three actively managed core equity strategies. The three products, which began trading today, are offered in a dual-access structure ...

Prosperity merges with accounting firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023
... Brisbane-based accounting and advisory firm. Prosperity has joined forces with Brisbane-based P+Y Accountants and Business Advisors. P+Y Accountants partners Brenden Yantsch and David Pennell and a team of 11 became part of Prosperity as of today. Yantsch ...

Campbell Lutyens opens local office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... platform. Other roles include manager of infrastructure at UniSuper for seven years. He also spent two years at Frontier Advisors as head of infrastructure and a further five years at Mercer as an actuarial analyst and investment consultant. Siapikoudis ...

Frontier calls out structural super fund flaws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
Frontier Advisors contends that superannuation fund designs inadvertently minimise retirees' income, contravening funds' obligation to provide the best possible outcomes for their members. Statistics show that nearly half of retirees only draw ...

Federal Court freezes assets of pension platform

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
ASIC has obtained interim orders from the Federal Court to freeze the funds and assets of Brite Advisors (Brite), a specialist in moving private UK pension savings offshore. The global advisory, pension administration and asset management provider came ...