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Chant West launches platform rankings

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2022
... scale to investment platforms, launching today with ratings for five platforms. Previously used to assess super and pension funds, Chant West will now use the rating service to review the features, services and investments provided to financial advisers ...

A sensible roadmap: Industry responds to QAR paper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... removing the best interests duty, removing the requirement to provide Statements of Advice, and allowing superannuation funds to provide personal financial advice. She has also suggested scrapping 'general advice' altogether. Welcoming the paper ...

Focus on providing 'good advice': QAR draft proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
A focus on providing 'good advice', the scrapping of general advice, and allowing superannuation funds to provide personal financial advice are just some of the proposed reforms contained in the Quality of Advice Review's consultation paper. ...

Are Australia's wealthiest tight-fisted?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... build wealth for these individuals, deserve more." Explaining another insight from the research related to private ancillary funds, UNSW adjunct professor and Paul Ramsay Foundation chair Michael Traill said this main form of structured giving used by ...

CEFC invests in Macquarie cattle station fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... Macquarie Asset Management said it is committed to sustainability and works closely with portfolio companies of its managed funds, like Paraway, to "ensure they have the capabilities, and resources needed to measure their emissions, set reduction targets ...

Super giants, investment firms join Future IM/Pact

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... with women at university and in their early career and informs them about a career in investing. Beattie said more super funds and investment management firms recognise the importance of working across industry to build the pipeline of female investors. ...

Hostplus expands Industry Fund Services mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... Adrian Gervasoni said: "For the last couple of years, we've been increasingly focused on encouraging and supporting industry funds to take a more human-centred design approach to their advice models," Gervasoni said. "We're absolutely thrilled to be ...

FICAP raises over $120k for charity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... trauma, isolation, bullying, poverty, homelessness and fragmentation of care, education and family support," she said. "The funds raised from FICAP provide essential support for SHINE's RISE Education program in Western Sydney. RISE gives primary-age ...

Not ruling anything out: Insignia Financial

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... released yesterday, pointed to super as a core part of its future strategy. "We see ourselves as one of the largest super funds in the country and that's really important for a couple of reasons," Mota said. Due to its size and scale, it can reinvest ...

Platinum remains positive despite net profit loss

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
While the asset manager realised an 8.6% loss in funds under management for the year to June 30 and will soon farewell Kerr Neilson, the firm's outlook is positive. Platinum saw a 38% net profit after tax loss, down to $101 million. The profit slide ...