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Lendlease ditches overseas construction

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024
... partial sale of the Retirement Living business in 2018, Lendlease has sold down two further tranches of the units in the joint venture trust in the 2021 and 2022 financial years, totalling 50%. The ATO has not issued amended assessments in respect of ...

UK forewarns Australia on wholesale test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... government touts overhauling wholesale investor tests that could result in channels of funding dry up. A recent Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry is considering a refresh of the entire wholesale investor test ...

Industry fund merger postponed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Mine Super and TWUSUPER have reported "significant progress" towards their merger, but it has been pushed back. In a joint statement, the super funds announced that their merger to form TEAM Super has been rescheduled from early 2024 to early 2025. ...

Loomis Sayles brings global bond fund to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
Loomis Sayles & Company, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has launched its Global Bond Fund for Australian wholesale investors. The fund seeks to provide diversified fixed income opportunities by combining macro themes and a bottom-up approach ...

Calls for a simplified path to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... Association Australia (FAAA) chief executive Sarah Abood said she supports recent proposals around adviser education from the Joint Associations Working Group (JAWG) because "we need far more people with these qualifications" and the current system isn't ...

Wholesale investor test reform has several ramifications: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... industry stakeholders to ensure it takes into account all possible consequential impacts." On March 20, a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services launched an inquiry into the entire wholesale investor testing framework. Key ...

Advisers urgently call on Treasury to recognise degrees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... is impossible under the current education regime." By working together with other advice professionals that comprise the Joint Associations Working Group (JAWG), the associations developed a proposal to change the current education standards for advisers ...

ClearView closes ClearChoice Super Rollover, launches trauma options

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... Rollover product. The first trauma option, Trauma Extras covers customers for less severe events such as fractures and total joint replacements that includes shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. Trauma Severe Events, the second option, covers catastrophic ...

APRA 'continuing to monitor' UniSuper outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... systems testing to ensure that once services are online, they will be stable," UniSuper chief executive Peter Chun said. In a joint statement, Chun and Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian said Google Cloud has now confirmed the outage is the result ...

Advisers must unite for major reforms: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... Financial advice reform, will provide an adviser's perspective on the risks and opportunities such changes present. " Joint Association Working Group formed from the breadth of associations coming together to provide a unified voice on the first ...