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Majority pass adviser exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... three quarters (73%) sat the exam for the first time. The results were similar to the April sitting, in which about one third of candidates failed the exam. A total of 21,430 candidates have sat the exam to date. Over 92% or 19,835 of candidates who ...

Funds SA exec jumps ship

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
... every success for the organisation and my Funds SA colleagues, whose friendship will continue." Interestingly, Keenan is the third executive to depart Funds SA in as many months. It all started when chief executive Jo Townsend left last September to ...

South Africa readies 'two pot' pension system

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... September 1, two-thirds of a person's retirement savings will be set aside and preserved until retirement. The remaining third will be placed into a second pot that individuals will have access to at times of financial distress before retirement. ...

BUSSQ fights back against regulatory imposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... saying that itself and super funds in general are subject to comprehensive and robust regulation and audits by independent third parties on a regular basis and that it has robust governance processes and frameworks to ensure its acting in accordance ...

IMAP names award winners for 2024

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2024
... Boutique Licensee Managed Account category, introduced just last year. DNR Capital won the Australian Equities award for the third consecutive year, while Accordius and Aoris Investment Management snatched the titles for Australian Equity Small Caps ...

Bell Financial half-year profit soars 50%, revenue up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
... initiatives. Meanwhile, it highlighted cost efficiencies from the completed migration of Bell Potter Securities clients to a third-party platform's clearing system, resulting in over $2 million in annual savings. Funds under advice grew at an 8.1% compound ...

ART appoints chief financial officer, promotes managers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
... from QSuper 13 years ago and earlier worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia as an economist and portfolio analyst. The third new leader, Zoe McHugh, joined Sunsuper just before it merged with QSuper to create ART. McHugh recently served as acting head ...

Local private debt funds' growth potential 'remains strong': Preqin

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... the peak of 51 closed in 2021. The capital raised by these funds fell from $7.8 billion in 2022 to $5 billion in 2023, a third of the $15.1 billion raised in 2021. "Part of the reason for this decline may stem from investor caution regarding the relative ...

APRA reprimands Cbus, BUSSQ over governance issues

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... committed to acting in the best interests of members, affirming that "our directors meet the requisite standards" and all third-party payments are made on commercial terms, aimed at maximising value for members. "We don't waste members' money ...

AFCA urges super trustees to improve processes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... of an instance where a person known to the member used their personal information to take money, while in other cases a third party had acquired their identification details in another way. "Sometimes fraud was committed by an adviser engaged by the ...