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Colonial First State loses private markets manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
Colonial First State has confirmed the departure of the senior manager responsible for unlisted investments within the fund's multi-asset team. The financial services giant said Daniel Cheang's last day with the firm was February 14. Cheang's ...

Centaur goes self-licensed, appoints former dealer group head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
Financial planning firm Centaur Financial Services has moved to its own AFSL and made a key hire in the process. Since 2015, Centaur has operated under a co-op licence with RFS Advice, Evalesco, and Guide Financial to reduce costs. However, Centaur ...

Industry fund insurance bungle adds fuel to mounting outrage

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... "incredible," he said, immediately understanding the urgency and promising him the case would be handled by the following day - and it was. "I worry that if I didn't call them [TAL], this would still be dragging on through Rest," he said. "My real concern ...

AustralianSuper under investigation for delayed death benefit payouts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
AustralianSuper is being investigated by ASIC over delays in paying out death benefits, after it remediated members last year. AustralianSuper announced last November that it would compensate around 7000 beneficiaries with $4.2 million for death benefit ...

Syfe bids for SelfWealth, ups BFG's offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
Trading platform Syfe has upped Bell Financial Group's (BFG) bid for SelfWealth, offering 12% more at 28 cents per share. Syfe's parent company Svava has already acquired 43.4 million SelfWealth shares, representing 18.8% of shares on issue. ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Mayhem erupted on Wall Street on Monday (local time) after Chinese-owned DeepSeek burst onto the artificial intelligence (AI) scene, wiping $1 trillion off chip maker Nvidia. AustralianSuper holds around $2 billion of Nvidia shares in its balanced option ...

Government to streamline financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced the release of a consultation paper to gather insights and feedback on how to restructure Australia's financial reporting architecture with the aim to make it more efficient, effective, and fit for purpose. Chalmers ...

mFunds sparked ASX outage, $1m credit issued

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
The ASX said the outage from last month largely stemmed from the now-defunct mFunds and will subsequently credit participants $1 million to make amends. While several circumstances led to the glitch, the ASX traced the root cause to the introduction ...

Aussie shares cost 8% more on rebalance days: Dimensional

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
Investing in the S&P/ASX 300 on a day it rebalances puts an 8% premium on share prices, a phenomenon that follows major global indices, new research from Dimensional Fund Advisors finds. The analysis studied the reconstitution activity of four other ...

Hostplus names deputy CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Hostplus has promoted Susan Orr to deputy investment chief following the recent departure of Con Michalakis who has taken on the top investment job at Funds SA. The $115 billion industry fund for hospitality workers confirmed that Orr will now serve ...