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KeyInvest, Mantis Funds launch investment bond offering

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
The Adelaide-based specialty financial services provider has partnered with Mantis Funds to bring investment bonds to wealth managers, financial advisers and high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). As part of the deal, Mantis will become the exclusive external ...

Life insurance industry profits double, premiums rise: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
Life insurance profits in Australia have soared to $1.2 billion, doubling in the year to 30 June 2023, primarily due to gains in superannuation business, according to KPMG's annual market review. Risk products recorded a $400 million profit in FY23 ...

PSK acquires Perth-based advice group

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
PSK Private Wealth is expanding into Perth with the acquisition of Sage Financial Group. Sage has more than 30 years of history, founded by Peter Tucker and John O'Neill in 1989. Under the acquisition, all its team, comprised of 20 employees and ...

Challenger posts record annuity sales

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
Challenger reported Total Life sales for the first quarter reached $2.8 billion, primarily driven by record annuity sales, contributing to substantial growth in its book value. The investment manager said annuity sales jumped by 17% to $2.1 billion ...

ANZ breached disclosure laws in 2015 raise: Court

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2023
The banking giant will likely face a hefty fine after the Federal Court found it breached continuous disclosure laws in 2015. The Court found that ANZ contravened continuous disclosure laws by failing to tell the market that underwriters had filled ...

Selfwealth ditches Stake takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2023
Selfwealth has rejected a takeover proposal from competitor trading platform Stake and its offer of 17.5c per share. The ASX-listed trading platform said that after careful assessment, "Stake's incomplete and conditional proposal did not offer appropriate ...

legalsuper appoints finance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2023
The industry fund for the legal community has hired a finance chief but is still in the market for a new chief investment officer to replace Norman Zhang who resigned last month. legalsuper chief executive Luke Symons has announced the appointment of ...

The Voice is not at the expense of the economy: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has refuted claims that the government's push to incorporate a Voice to Parliament has come at the expense of the economy. Tomorrow, millions of Australians will hit the polls and decide if a First Nations' Voice to Parliament ...

Perpetual hires new distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
Perpetual Asset Management has appointed longstanding wealth operative Tom Loneragan as head of listed and direct. In this role, Loneragan will sit within the distribution and sales team and report to the firm's head of wealth, Lee Hopperton. The ...

Link shakes up board, names super industry veteran

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
Link Group will reduce the number of positions on its board and has appointed a superannuation industry veteran to refresh the line-up to reflect massive changes to its business model. Mark Lennon joins the ASX-listed firm as an independent non-executive ...