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Nominations open for 30th annual MAX Awards

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
Nominations are now open for the annual Financial Standard MAX (Marketing, Advertising and Sales Excellence) Awards. Now in their 30th year, the MAX Awards recognises industry excellence in the fields of marketing, advertising and sales in financial ...

HNWI collecting activity stoops: Knight Frank

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
Despite a slew of record-breaking sales, luxury investment markets weakened in 2023, according to the Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index (KFLII). For only the second time, the KFLII, which tracks the performance of 10 popular investments of passion ...

VanEck establishes foothold in Brisbane

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... capital markets, and client coverage specialists. Deniz Kilic, previously with Prime Financial Planning, has joined VanEck's sales team as a business development associate, focusing on expanding the client base in New South Wales and Queensland. Vivian ...

Super funds in pole position for expanded advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
Superannuation funds will have a leg up over life insurers and banks once the federal government implements its proposal to expand financial advice. This is according to industry experts who say that super funds are in good stead to bolster the availability ...

Iress reports $137m loss in 'challenging year'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... towards completing its transformation project. It has made significant strides this year in capital repatriation through asset sales and debt retirement. Notably, the sale of MFA in October generated $50.5 million in gross proceeds and the sale of the ...

Link, The Trust Bank progress acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... prior period. Link Group managing director Vivek Bhatia said: "Our business simplification strategy is now complete with the sales of our banking and credit management (BCM) business and fund solutions (FS) UK and Ireland business finalised." "We continue ...

Janus Henderson makes two senior appointments

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
Janus Henderson Investors appointed a local head of retail research for Australia and hired a sales director from T. Rowe Price. Craig McDonald was promoted to the newly created role of head of retail research for Australia, having previously served ...

AMP reports boost in IFA flows, mulls advice unit options

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... group's underlying NPAT was up 6.5% to $196 million. Statutory NPAT was $265 million, bolstered by $245 million following the sales of AMP Capital and SuperConcepts. "We have repositioned the portfolio with the completion of the AMP Capital sales ...

Challenger overhauls IT, awards mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... this morning, Challenger's Life business recorded $5.3 billion in revenue, down 4% on the prior corresponding period. Sales for lifetime annuity, which includes Aware Super's annuity policy valued at $619 million, and Index Plus products hit ...

Barings builds out local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
... Australia, Greater China and Southeast Asia. Last August, the firm hired Aaron Thirukumar as director of Australian institutional sales. Both Thirukumar and Michael Gaffney, head of distribution for Australia and New Zealand, focus on institutional business ...