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ASIC waves red flag at advisers, trustees over Choice products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... Meantime, five trustees designed one or all their Choice products for advised members. "Diversification of options to simply cater to individual member circumstances and attract advisers to the product is not sufficient justification for offering an ...

Younger Aussies embracing SMSFs, guidance needed

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... Hurley, younger generations want more control over their retirement savings than ever before, and financial advisers need to cater to this demand. Addressing the crowd at the SMSF Association Conference in Brisbane, Hurley cited new research by Class ...

Brite Advisors to be wound up

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024
The Federal Court has ordered Brite Advisors (Brite) to be wound up on just and equitable grounds following an application by ASIC. At a hearing yesterday, the Court appointed Linda Smith and Robert Kirman of McGrath Nicol as liquidators to Brite and ...

Scarcity buys stake in asset manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
Scarcity Partners has bought into an $8 billion asset manager that caters to private wealth firms. Scarcity acquired a 30% interest in Evidentia Group but did not disclose the dollar value. Evidentia works with private wealth firms to build investment ...

Real asset cycle likely to return: Dexus

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... assets, Dexus believes that there is potential for increasing investment. The sector needs a significant boost in capacity to cater to a rising and aging population, it said. "The underlying sentiment for healthcare remains very positive due to the diversification ...

How young Australians are missing out on better super returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023
... most investors; most are balanced funds with a fixed 70:30 growth-defensive asset mix. "MySuper products were designed to cater for a largely disengaged customer base given superannuation's distant payoff," Miles said. "Those least likely to be engaged ...

Future Group acquires Verve Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
Just a month on from taking on GuildSuper, Future Group has now acquired 100% of women-focused fund Verve Super. Verve Super is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Future Super, under a deal finalised this month. Having long struggled to offer a competitive ...

Spatium Capital selects trustee, administrator for small caps fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
Melbourne-based Spatium Capital has named True Oak as its trustee and the ASCENT Group as the administrator of its small companies fund. True Oak and the ASCENT Group are expected to oversee the Spatium Capital Small Companies Fund (SSCF) from early ...

Commonwealth Super Corp selects Challenger for retirement products

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
... their journey to accessing retirement income." According to Hill, CSC designed various retirement income solutions that cater to the distinctive requirements of its customers. For this purpose, they have categorised their customers into cohort-based ...

Robo-adviser reaches US$50bn milestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023
While the local robo-advice industry flounders, Wealthfront has hit a record high of more than US$50 billion ($77bn) in assets under management, catering to 700,000 investors. The US robo-adviser boasted that as it continues to diversify offerings ...