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Choice products require fairer framework: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
Choice products require a fairer regulatory framework as the current settings are heavily focused on default superannuation, putting advised clients with complex needs at a disadvantage, according to the Financial Services Council (FSC). A new report ...

Cbus taps ex-AustralianSuper equities chief for 'critical role'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
Cbus has appointed a former AustralianSuper equities chief to serve as its head of portfolio construction. Justin Pascoe, who joined AustralianSuper as a senior portfolio manager in June 2019 before being promoted in August 2021, will take on the "critical ...

Former wealth management chief ousted from financial services

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
The founder and former chief executive of wealth management firm United Global Capital, Joel Hewish, has been slapped with a 10-year ban from providing financial services. Hewish, who is also prohibited from holding any role within a financial services ...

Wilsons Advisory snaps up private wealth practice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
Statton Partners will join Wilsons Advisory Private Wealth division, adding the firm's clients, client assets and advisers to the business. The Statton Partners team will be moving into Wilsons Advisory's Sydney offices in the coming months ...

'Unrealistic overconfidence' major issue for new advice clients

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
A new report has identified how financial advice firms can bridge the value gap for prospective clients to get them on their books. Netwealth's 2024 Advisable Australian research, conducted in partnership with The Lab Strategy, found the barriers to ...

BNP Paribas in talks to buy AXA Investment Managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
AXA is at the pointy end of discussions with BNP Paribas to offload its asset management business for $8.5 billion. AXA Investment Managers has been part of the AXA Group for 25 years and, in that time, has grown to house some $1.4 trillion (€850 ...

Barings, Rest break ground on $400m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
Barings and Rest have teamed up to start work on a planned $400 million logistics and industrial estate in Sydney's south-west industrial corridor. Access Logistics Park, a 20-hectare industrial site, was jointly purchased in April this year by Barings ...

Private capital fundraising remains in the doldrums: Preqin

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
Private capital fundraising across an aggregate of asset classes continues to remain at a low point, according to a report by Preqin. However, there is a silver lining as fundraising for APAC-focused private equity funds increased in the second quarter ...

New shadow assistant treasurer's vision for advice, super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Luke Howarth has reaffirmed the opposition unreservedly supports Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR) recommendations and wouldn't go back to the drawing board, at an event hosted by the Financial Services ...

Court rejects former fund manager's appeal

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
A former fund manager who went to jail for misappropriating client funds had an appeal quashed. The Queensland Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by Roger Munro against his conviction on three counts of fraud. Munro was sentenced to four and ...