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NGS Super refreshes investment team, promotes three

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
NGS Super has revamped its investment team, creating a new deputy chief investment officer role and promoting two staffers within its ESG and responsible investment unit. Michael Mi was promoted to the newly created role of deputy chief investment officer. ...

DG Institute to pay near $20m for misleading courses

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
The Federal Court has ordered Master Wealth Control, also known as DG Institute, to pay $5 million in fines for "making false and misleading representations" to customers in relation to its educational programs, Real Estate Rescue (PER) and Master Wealth ...

OnePath Custodians fined $11m for MySuper failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
OnePath Custodians is entering a court enforceable undertaking with APRA and will pay close to $11 million, as it continues to identify super members whose contributions weren't directed to a MySuper option when they should have been. APRA has agreed ...

Wealth managers rev up for Lifeline, Starlight

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
The Berry Motorfair returns this year with the aim of raising $150,000 for Lifeline Australia and the Starlight Children's Foundation. The event will be held on November 24 at the Coolangatta Estate Winery in Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales. The ...

Canned 'golden visas' ruffle fund managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
The cancellation of "golden visas" could be dire for fund managers' business models as the industry hopes the government will unveil another iteration of the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) that have attracted massive inflows from rich investors. ...

Equip Super returns 9.23% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
Equip Super has revealed its Balanced Growth option achieved a return of 9.23%, and its Growth Plus option delivered 12.12%. Equip Super chief investment officer Andrew Howard said despite a challenging global backdrop, rising interest rates and ongoing ...

TelstraSuper pumps more into renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
TelstraSuper has handed over an undisclosed amount to Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, to be invested in its Net Zero Power Fund. Quinbrook's Net Zero Power Fund, which is targeting US$2 billion, seeks investments that look to support decarbonisation ...

ANZ, Westpac 'the cheapest majors': Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
ANZ Group and Westpac have been identified as the cheapest major banks in an "overvalued sector," while Commonwealth Bank was deemed expensive by new Morningstar research. Morningstar senior equity analyst Nathan Zaia said that the valuation divergence ...

iExtend receives AFSL after lengthy wait

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
iExtend has been granted an AFSL, after entering a court enforceable undertaking last year over concerns of unlicensed conduct. In November 2023, the life insurance startup entered a court enforceable undertaking after ASIC pinged it for possibly operating ...

Former director disqualified for breaching obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
Having been involved in three failed companies, ASIC has disqualified a former financial services industry director for five years. Christian Oey was the director of two financial services companies between May 1999 and November 2018, Clickthru and ...