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Magellan targets $100bn in five years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... poor investment performance and said there are several opportunities within its three core investment capabilities it will focus on for near term growth. These are its Core Series format, the energy transition and small cap Aussie equities. He also added ...

Household Capital partners with Genworth

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance has taken a 22% stake in home equity retirement funding provider Household Capital, concluding a $37.6 million series C capital raise. Speaking to Financial Standard, Household Capital chief executive Joshua Funder ...

Partners Group expands Australian team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
... sales experience to the firm. Meanwhile, Scott will take on an expanded role in the region on top of his current duties. His focus will be increasing investment sourcing and transactions in Australia and New Zealand, building on the highly successful ...

Fortnum expands engagement, growth team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
Fortnum Private Wealth welcomed Jason Gapps to the role of practice engagement and growth manager. Gapps will officially start in November and report to Fortnum's head of practice engagement and growth Rob Skinner. He joins from Madison Financial Group ...

AMP debuts hybrid retirement solution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
AMP has launched MyNorth Lifetime, a new suite of solutions available through the North platform that combines an account-based pension with the lifetime cashflow features of annuities. The MyNorth Lifetime Income account is a flexible pension account ...

UniSuper chair to step down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
Ian Martin will retire as chair of UniSuper at the end of the year, with an existing board director to replace him. Martin has been on the UniSuper board for close to a decade, the last five years of which were spent as chair. During that time the fund ...

Maple-Brown Abbott names investment director

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2022
... raisings. He has also held roles at CMC Markets and ABN AMRO. Maple-Brown said Stark's appointment reflects an increased focus on building relationships and strengthening communications with international clients and the broader investment community. ...

Piecemeal super taxes won't fix budget deficit: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2022
... chosen by the FSC from various proposals mooted in the media, financial services industry, and policy circles. The initial focus of the research was on three areas of super taxation and contribution settings that might be considered ways to raise additional ...

Choice performance test pause in members' best interests: Chant West

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2022
... there's been several unintended consequences of the proposed test and many funds have been forced to adopt a shorter-term focus to ensure they pass. "This has often been accompanied by less portfolio diversification to better track the test's benchmarks ...

ETF industry drops in value

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2022
... explained while you can't escape the talk of recession, the best thing investors can do at present is to tune out the noise and focus on meaningful portfolio diversification. "Financial markets are forward-looking and have likely already priced in the ...