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Retail funds drive down admin fees: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... efficiencies and synergies due to the realisation of economies of scale. "Further, it is important that super funds undergoing mergers/SFTs commit to appropriate levels of operational synergies, timing/phasing of synergy realisation and a disciplined ...

Platform reveals advice firms' top issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... management included human resources, workflow, process design, succession, referrals, outsourcing, efficiency, practice mergers and acquisitions, and compliance. Within advice technology, advisers commonly shared tools and processes that have improved ...

Another corporate fund bites the dust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... retirement savings of the car manufacturer's employees. It's existed in its current form since 2000, the result of several mergers including the combination of the Nissan Executive Superannuation Trust and the Nissan Retirement Fund. However, in that ...

Aware Super hires head of corporate development

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... Investor division, including Vanguard Super. Stevens brings extensive experience in the superannuation space, and with mergers, having previously been chief executive of AustSafe Super for nearly 13 years. AustSafe merged with Sunsuper in 2019 and Stevens ...

'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... said. "Regardless, trustees have their obligations to meet. So, if you're going to have the scale in terms of the mergers, the size and the growth, then you need to have the right risk management, right systems, invest in the capabilities to meet ...

OpenMarkets brings on corporate advisory firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... markets transactions, including IPOs rights issues and placements, as well as private capital raisings. It also advises on mergers and acquisitions, schemes of arrangements, and management buyouts. Under the agreement, Rawson Lewis will operate as a ...

OneSuper to take on more super products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... of about 32,000 members. In explaining to members of the various products, Diversa said: "APRA is actively encouraging mergers between superannuation funds, where the merger is considered to be in the best financial interests of members." "Mergers result ...

Perennial launches new investment fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... of private capital," Lyons said. "On the other hand, we have seen a marked increase in corporate activity (takeovers, mergers and IPOs) in both domestic and offshore public markets since the start of the year." Lyons said there were 93 M&A transactions ...

Adviser numbers plateau

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... Eureka Whittaker Macnaught (EWM) and Blue Harbour Financial Partners recently announced their merger. Last year, major mergers and acquisitions included Insignia Financial selling Millennium3 to ASX-listed WT Financial Group (WTL) with a total of 75 ...

Government introduces company merger overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... Treasurer Jim Chalmers and assistant minister for competition, charities, and treasury Andrew Leigh jointly stated that mergers will be approved to proceed within 30 working days, where the regulator decides that they don't raise any competition concerns. ...