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Boutique to open Sydney office

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
A Melbourne boutique has opened a Sydney office and added to its distribution team as its looks to expand its presence in the retail market. Scott Curtis is joining Warakirri Asset Management as a business development manager from Liverpool Partners ...

UniSuper stares down job crisis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
The industry superannuation fund for universities is the only defined benefit fund still open to new members in Australia, now it is grappling with how the sector has been decimated by COVID-19. The travel bans put in place around the world to curb ...

Kyckr to raise $10m, rich lister on board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... in the last few months," Kyckr chief executive Ian Henderson said. "Our strategy is focused on building our enterprise channel and partnership model, and the additional funds will be used to ensure Kyckr has the financial flexibility to pursue growth ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
As merger activity propels the size of some of the nation's super funds, outsourcing could emerge as the answer to cheaper, quicker and more scalable trading. According to State Street, outsourced trading can help super funds and asset managers ...

Count Financial makes growth-focused hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
Count Financial has hired an experienced practice development manager, whose resume features the likes of Affinia, Commonwealth Bank and AMP, to ramp up its growth strategy. Chris Burton has been appointed as Count's practice development manager, and ...

Magellan remains cautious, for now

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Sitting on a significant amount of liquidity, Magellan is waiting for a few dominoes to fall before it pulls the trigger and deploys cash from its global and high conviction funds. Having increased the cash balances across both its high conviction and ...

SISFA relaunches membership to SMSF trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Self-managed Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) has redesigned and is relaunching its membership offering for SMSF trustees. SISFA said through existing communication channels and those of new associated partners and sponsors, up to ...

Law firm bolsters financial services team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed a new partner to its financial services regulatory practice. Charlotte Henry joins the firm May 18 and will focus on advising clients in regards to Australian banking regulatory matters alongside partners Michael ...

Realigning remuneration expectations

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Incentives could be 30-40% lower in 2020 owing to COVID-19 and underperforming investment products, according to a new compensation report covering asset management, insurance and sales. This year is "unusually important" for salaries as the trifecta ...

CBA sells 55% of CFS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Commonwealth Bank is set to offload 55% of Colonial First State to a $335 billion global investment firm. Announced to the ASX this morning, CBA has entered an agreement to sell 55% of CFS to private equity firm KKR. CBA said the transaction implies ...