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AFCA chair under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
The woes of Crown Resorts seem far from over, and now scrutiny has turned to executive chair Helen Coonan - with some suggesting she should resign from AFCA before her term as chair ends in May. Today Crown announced that Coonan will be paid an extra ...

The future of quality advice: SMSFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
Investing in tools and data integration, being clear in value proposition and proactively monitoring client portfolios will ensure the future of a quality financial advice business. Speaking at the Self-managed Superannuation Fund Association (SMSFA) ...

Count Financial expands national reach

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
Count Financial has announced three new firms have been added to its national network of advice businesses. Plan Protect and YS Financial Planning from Sydney and Financial Stability from Melbourne are the three newest firms in the CountPlus-owned licensee. ...

ANZ posts 54% profit rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
ANZ posted a net profit after tax for the first quarter of $1.62 billion, up 54% on the average of the past two quarters. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott said it was a strong performance given the volatile trading conditions that highlights the benefits ...

Westpac prioritises risk management

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Westpac announced risk management and rebuilding its culture will be its top priorities for 2021. The bank paid $105 million to about 548,000 customers it has wronged during the first quarter ending December 2020, as announced in a trading update this ...

Revolution hires to investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The private debt boutique has added a former Challenger investor as a portfolio manager, and an associate portfolio manager from JANA. Steve Sutinen has joined Revolution Asset Management as a portfolio manager. He spent 21 years at Challenger, including ...

Challenger wins $200m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
Challenger has scored a $200 million mandate in indexed global equities from an industry fund. Local Government Super, which manages $12 billion in retirement savings for current and former New South Wales government employees, picked Challenger for ...

How to attract high net worth clients

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
The latest Netwealth The Advisable Australian report has revealed the attitudes of potential financial advice clients when it comes to brand affinity, finding that higher incomes bring higher expectations. The report found that increased household income ...

Wage subsidy to rescue advice industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
With just 65 new names appearing on the ASIC Financial Adviser Register in 2020, the rapid decline in adviser numbers has industry experts calling for a wage subsidy to incentivise advice practices to take hire graduates. In its pre-Budget submission ...

Industry funds pool $61bn of assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
Two industry superannuation funds will pool their assets to create a $61 billion trust, in a move that is set to be a better alternative to a merger. Touted as an industry first, Maritime Super and Hostplus today announced an asset-pooling partnership ...