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Integrity Life raises $43m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
Institutional fund managers have pumped $43 million into life insurance startup Integrity Life to help it expand and build out its digital offering. The majority of the capital came from Schroders Investment Management based in Switzerland, Leadenhall ...

Court blocks bid to freeze Phil Kingston's assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
A court has blocked an attempt by Sargon's Chinese lender to freeze the assets of Phil Kingston, as the latter heads towards public questioning next month. China Insurance Finance Group Ltd commenced court proceedings on August 24, seeking repayment ...

ETFs undermine product comparison: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
The proliferation of products in the booming exchange-traded funds market is confusing investors and making it impossible to make like-for-like comparisons. New research from the US shows the exchange-traded product industry operates opaquely on many ...

ASI bolsters SMA service

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
Aberdeen Standard Investments has added two financial planning firms to its separately managed accounts (SMA) service. Futuro Financial Services and Profusion Planning have joined the SMA service, which has goals-based models and manages 18 multi-asset ...

Super funds squander member money: Bragg

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
Senator Andrew Bragg is calling for greater scrutiny of how superannuation funds spend members' money, slamming the system that has enjoyed three decades of unquestioned opacity. Appearing at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia event ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
A new trading platform has launched today, set to help Aussie investors trade over 2500 shares, LICS, REITs and ETFs with as little as a $100 investment and a flat $5 brokerage fee. Superhero, which its co-founder and chief executive John Winters says ...

Former IFM executive joins KKR

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
A former director of IFM Investors has joined KKR as head of client partner group for the local region. Nicholas Hyde is responsible for managing and expanding KKR's client relationships in Australia and New Zealand, raising capital for public markets ...

Liberal senator slams super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
A Liberal senator launched an attack against the superannuation industry, accusing the federal opposition of being communists and bowing to industry funds. A war of words broke out in the upper house yesterday when Liberals, who have been working for ...

ASIC relaxes IPO red tape

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
ASIC has loosened the red tape for companies undertaking an initial public offering with the issuance of regulatory relief. Following a public consultation in February 2020, the corporate regulator has amended the legislation to grant relief for voluntary ...

Sam Henderson pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
Former celebrity financial adviser Sam Henderson has plead guilty to three charges of dishonest conduct. Henderson plead guilty to one "rolled up" charge of dishonest conduct along with two counts of making a disclosure document available to a person ...