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Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
According to recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, women hold 14.6% of chair positions, 28.1% of directorships and represent 18.3% of chief executives and 32.5% of key management personnel. Perhaps most concerning of all, only 0.4% ...

Fidante strikes new partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
Challenger's multi-boutique business has partnered with a Japanese asset management giant in a two-way relationship. Nomura Asset Management, which has over $500 billion in assets under management, will support Fidante's Japanese ambitions. Fidante ...

Chant West to buy Rice Warner insurance comparator

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
Chant West has entered an agreement with Rice Warner to buy the latter's Galaxy Insurance Comparators business. The 16-year-old business is an insurance comparison tool for desktop software providers to the financial advice industry, institutional ...

Adviser levy to increase by 160%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
ASIC has hit financial advisers with the news that levies will increase by the equivalent of 160% over two years, with industry bodies outraged. The total cost levied by ASIC is now $1500 per retail advice licence, plus an additional $2426 per authorised ...

More women in workforce with greater paternity leave: ASI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
Ahead of International Women's Day on Monday, Aberdeen Standard Investments is calling for reform to parental leave policies to increase women's participation in the work force, saying increased paternity leave means more women in work. A research paper ...

Super fund halves admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
An $11.2 billion superannuation fund will halve its administration fees later this month. Mine Super is reducing its MySuper administration fees by a whopping 50%, dropping to $52 per year from $104. "We know the fees you pay today can make a big difference ...

Best global equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
BetaShares and Fidelity's funds topped Rainmaker rankings for risk-adjusted returns for global equities funds for the three years ending December 2020. The report, RMetrics, measures over 1100 products. The international equities rankings included ...

Venture capital firm in data breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
A US venture capital firm that recently won a mandate with the Future Fund is the subject of a cybersecurity breach that involved a phishing scam. Sequoia Capital informed investors last week that sensitive information has been accessed by a third party. ...

Janus Henderson strengthens institutional team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
In a series of promotions, Janus Henderson Investors has appointed a new head of institutional business for Australia and head of consultant relations. Tom Kelly has been promoted to head of institutional business for Australia from his role as institutional ...

Metrics launches NZ fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
Metrics Credit Partners has launched a private debt fund for wholesale investors in New Zealand with a target annual return of 3.25% over the RBNZ cash rate. The Metrics Multi-Strategy Private Debt (NZ) Fund marks the Pinnacle boutique's first investment ...