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Frontier grows consulting, governance teams

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
Frontier Advisors has announced four new appointments, hiring from Aviva, Zenith, Cooper Investments and Motley Fool. Firstly, Daniel Manser will join Frontier's client consulting team, working with investors across all client segments. Manser joins ...

ASIC slams funds' serious deficiencies over advice fee charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
A review by ASIC has found evidence of poor oversight of advice fee deductions by superannuation trustees, with some allowing charges of up to $20,000 before raising concerns and some not conducting any checks of advice documents at all. ASIC is calling ...

SMC says 'reckless' plan could cost taxpayers $1tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
Super Members Council (SMC) has slammed the Coalition's plan for young Australians to use their super for a house deposit, saying new modelling shows it could cost taxpayers a cumulative $1 trillion. SMC said even a policy which capped super withdrawals ...

Advisers must unite for major reforms: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
Financial advisers will need to band together to successfully get through another of period of reforms that will ultimately make advice accessible and affordable, this year's Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association (SIAA) Conference will ...

Future Group changes fees for Guild members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
GuildSuper and GuildPension members will see some changes to the fees they pay from this month. In November last year, Future Group acquired GuildSuper, including Child Care Super, adding about $2.77 billion in funds under management and some 99,000 ...

Platinum's FUM dips below $14bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
Platinum Investment Management's funds under management took a $1.65 billion hit to finish at $13.5 billion at the end of April. Most of the outflows came from an unnamed institutional investor walking away and product rationalisation initiatives ...

Experts weigh in: Will the RBA hike rates again?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left interest rate unchanged at the May meeting, as was widely expected by economists. But some have suggested another hike could be on the horizon given less than optimistic inflation data which rose 1% in the March ...

AMP launches alternative debt fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
AMP is launching a new investment solution to provide bespoke access to global private debt investments in developed markets. AMP said the total volume of institutional assets under management allocated to private debt is estimated to be around US$1.7 ...

Blue Owl hires from Fidelity for APAC private wealth lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
Blue Owl Capital has announced the hiring of Johann Santer as a managing director and head of APAC private wealth, effective immediately. Santer will be based in the company's Hong Kong office reporting to Sean Connor, president and chief executive ...

Count renews Iress contract

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
Count has renewed its contract with Iress to continue to provide software to its 550 financial adviser network. Count's financial advisers will continue to use Iress' Xplan, saying that it wanted to partner with the right provider to support ...