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Future Fund finds new chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
The Future Fund's search for a chief investment officer is over, having promoted a long-tenured investment veteran. Most recently serving as deputy chief investment officer, Ben Samild has been promoted. He assumes chief investment officer responsibilities ...

New chief executive for retail super fund, platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
A retail superannuation fund and platform provider has named its new chief executive as the incumbent retires after 12 years. Acclaim Wealth, formerly AMG Super, promoted Terry Constable as the new chief effective October 1. Constable joined the organisation ...

Trustees lack urgency, strategy on RIC: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
A joint regulatory review finds that superannuation funds are shrugging off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and are failing to integrate this mandate into their business plans. One year since the Retirement Income Covenant took ...

Frontier calls for better unlisted asset valuations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
Frontier Advisors is collaborating with Australian asset owners to hold fund managers to account regarding the accurate valuation of unlisted assets. The consulting firm was spurned to action amid robust growth in the superannuation sector, with an ...

Technology top threat to company culture: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
New and emerging technology is the biggest threat to company culture within financial services firms, more than 60% of senior leaders say. According to a report by Allen & Overy (A&O Consulting), Organisational culture in financial services, 62% of ...

abrdn sells local trustee business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
MSC Trustees has acquired abrdn's Australian trustee entity, becoming the corporate trustee of 10 funds. The fund book, comprising $1.5 billion in funds under management, includes the abrdn Sustainable Asian Opportunities Fund, abrdn Sustainable ...

ALRC to simplify, restructure advice laws

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2023
The Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) third and final interim report is proposing to restructure and simplify financial advice regulation after finding the industry is regulated very differently to other financial services sectors. Interim ...

ETF explainer: Understanding their structure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
... ETF units, either transacting on their own account or on behalf of clients, primarily to secure ETFs at the net asset value (NAV). Market makers, on the other hand, keep the market liquid by ensuring a flow of bids and offers around the NAV, thereby ...

SMSF advisers navigate new regulation: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
New policy proposals, including indexation of the transfer balance cap and the $3 million cap present a variety of engagement opportunities for SMSF advisers, according to Investment Trends' latest report. The 18th annual edition of the 2023 SMSF Adviser ...

First Sentier clients walk away with $13bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The fund manager bled $12.6 billion in outflows across several managed funds in the year to March, Rainmaker research shows. Four of First Sentier Investors' products lost more than $1 billion in net flows each, Rainmaker's latest Wholesale ...