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Super, retirement unit cushions Link's massive loss

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2023
... said RSS "is now one of the biggest players in the Occupational Retirement Scheme Ordinance (ORSO) pensions administration market". The Fund Solutions arm continues to dampen Link's performance with the unit's FY23 performance, starting with ...

SG Hiscock partners with US fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2023
... partnership with abrdn in which the former is the wholesale distribution partner for international funds in the Australian market. In 2017, First State Super awarded a large mandate to EAM Global Investors, which is part of Pacific Current Group's ...

Challenger Life books record annuity sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... institutional investors alike increasingly turn to retirement income products. Annuity sales stemming from the domestic retail market jumped 53% to $3.6 billion in FY23, split across retail term annuity sales of $2.9 billion (up 53%) and lifetime sales ...

Hejaz debuts Australia's first Islamic pension product

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... highlighted by Australian Bureau of Statistics' figures of close to 800,000 people, there exists a vast addressable market for Sharia-compliant financial solutions. However, the uptake of Islamic-specific super products remains comparatively low. ...

RBA sustains cash rate at 4.1%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
... Weak household consumption and dwelling investments are some of the forces dampening activity. "Conditions in the labour market remain very tight, although they have eased a little. Job vacancies and advertisements are still at very high levels, although ...

Partners Wealth Group names head of alternatives

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
... said. "We firmly believe that individual investors deserve better and with our ability to offer institutional and middle market opportunities that clients have never had access to before, our conviction is this will provide superior investment returns ...

Cromwell, Value Partners group join forces

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
Cromwell Property Group (Cromwell) and Hong Kong-based asset manager Value Partners Group have established a joint venture, exchanging on the sale of a 50% stake in the Cromwell Italy Urban Logistics Fund assets. The seven properties that make up the ...

Apostle links with venture capital firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
... with US$287 million ($431.1m) in commitments. Fund I is now closed, Fund II is closing, and Fund III is set to enter the market later this year. Safar targets a return multiple of over 4x on invested capital and a net IRR of over 20%. Commenting on Safar's ...

FSCP hands down second order, audits adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2023
... financial services laws compliance to pre-vet the next 10 SoAs provided to a retail client. The written direction also forces an audit of 10 past SoAs that the adviser provided to clients between 1 February 2023 and 30 April 2023. "The relevant provider ...

Advice regtech acquires TIQK assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... next-generation products with improved automation, meaning more rapid disruption of the highly fragmented advice assurance market. "Our first-generation product was sufficiently automated to attract around 12% of Australian advisers to our hybrid "bionic" ...