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Fortitude Investment Partners expands team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
Private equity manager Fortitude Investment Partners has made a string of appointments this month, including an investor services manager who had worked at Allan Gray (South Africa) for more than a decade. Akyere Sobukwe-Whyte has been appointed as ...

Three retirement products achieve double-digit returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... Balanced Growth option each delivered 10.4% p.a. in the three years to July. HESTA's Income Stream Balanced Growth is not far behind with 10.2% p.a. Over a 10-year timeframe, UniSuper and HESTA achieved 8.4% p.a. and 8% p.a. respectively. Legalsuper's ...

FAAA calls for other sectors to help pay $67m CSLR bill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... calculated at $75 million - $67 million of which is to be paid by the advice sub-sector. "The major collapses that we have seen so far, including Dixon Advisory, United Global Capital, Brite Advisory, Shield and First Guardian, each point to a key product ...

ASIC permanently bans convicted investment manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... reports also falsely claimed that trading and report creation were conducted by external entities, with Trevillian going so far as to forge the signature of an accountant from the nominated firm to validate the documents. Trevillian was the sole director ...

Exposure to US hitting Aussie companies: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
UniSuper head of fixed income David Colosimo has spoken in the wake of earnings season, noting Australian companies which rely on the US market have started taking a hit - and it may well continue. Colosimo pointed to CSL and James Hardie, both of which ...

Bravura, Future Group partner on digital advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... supporting our members as they approach retirement," Singappuli said. "The collaboration and shared innovation between our teams so far has been outstanding." In addition, Bravura has partnered with AIA Financial Wellbeing to build its first digital ...

FS Power50 shortlist revealed, voting opens

STAFF WRITER  |  SATURDAY, 30 AUG 2025
... financial advisers who have progressed to the voting stage after receiving more than 200 nominations has been revealed. So far, more than 10,000 votes have been cast. In the making of this list, Financial Standard defines 'influential' as individuals ...

Trust key to client satisfaction in advice: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... trust and fee transparency have slowly emerged as two of the top elements for client satisfaction. "Trust came through by far and away as the top driver of satisfaction, and it is something that is effectively the bedrock of the relationship between ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... their clients, in the broader financial services sector doing the right thing," Macdonald said. "Hopefully, the findings so far will help to move from consultation and inquiry into action to stop or at least minimise these large failures."

Shield-linked advice firm director, compliance manager banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... to maintain MWL's compliance manual, including the conflicts policy, and failed his gatekeeper functions, ASIC said. So far, four of MWL's financial advisers have been banned by ASIC over their involvement in the Shield debacle. They are Isaac ...