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Hostplus and Maritime Super explore merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
Hostplus and Maritime Super have signed a memorandum of understanding, entering into merger discussions. The funds have an existing partnership, Maritime Super entered into a strategic outsourcing arrangement by moving the management of its investment ...

Pinnacle executive joins Plato LIC

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... director of listed products at Pinnacle, responsible for driving the listed products business including more than $5 billion of funds under management across active ETFs and listed closed end funds. He is also a director of Australian Listed Investment ...

Mixed results for Netwealth

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... spend resulted in a 32% rise in employee benefit spend, mostly resulting from Netwealth adding more than 80 staff members. Funds under administration (FUA) grew by 46% to $56.7 billion The platform also enjoyed record inflows of $7.6 billion, a 71% increase. ...

VFMC appoints head of investment stewardship

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has appointed a head of investment stewardship. Shali Lingaretnam has been appointed head of investment stewardship in an ongoing capacity, having been acting in the role since July 2021. Lingaretnam ...

Challenger delivers strong result

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... billion, up 20%. Life sales were up 44% to $4.9 billion and life book growth was up 8.4% or $1.4 billion. In Challenger's funds management business, AUM grew 20% to $109 billion. Normalised net profit after tax (NPAT) was up 21% to $166 million, and ...

Australian market praised in latest pension study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... dominant defined contributions structure, its government-mandated nature and competitive institutional model. "But Australian funds aren't resting on their laurels, with significant change still occurring in the industry, including merger activity among ...

Former Pinnacle executive in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... services to the role, 26 of them spent in distribution. Commenting on the hire, Shaw said Dell has exceptional experience in funds management and she is looking forward to working with him again. "Matt will be able to hit the ground running at 4D, with ...

What fund selectors want: Natixis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... Australia and New Zealand Louise Watson said. "For this reason, we're seeing a host of investors from superannuation funds to family offices look to longer-term investment options such as private equity. This is a trend that's been prevalent ...

Infocus adds four practices to network

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... Timeless Wealth, and Brendan O'Rourke from Geelong Wealth. Zella Wealth was previously licensed with Australia Pacific Funds Management and Consultum Financial Advisers. Infocus managing director Darren Steinhardt told Financial Standard that the ...

ATO underestimates SMSF performance: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... yesterday released their findings after a joint examination of the financial performance of a large sample of self-managed super funds. The examination, which took place over the period 2017-2019, comprised of over 489.000 unique observations with data ...