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Super funds fight for financial inclusion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... contribute to a $2.9 billion annual uplift in GDP, potential government savings of $583 million and increase household wealth by $11.8 billion per year. As part of its action plan, VicSuper has formally made a commitment to drive financial wellbeing ...

HUB24 lures BTFG executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
Listed wealth management platform HUB24 appointed Craig Lawrenson as its chief operations officer. Lawrenson will start his new role in mid-August after serving more than 20 years at Westpac subsidiaries BT Financial Group and Asgard. He most recently ...

Family offices partner for major US acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... US. The Domus Multifamily Real Estate Fund (Domus), along with Los Angeles-based Geringer Capital and Australian private wealth investors, made the acquisition for US$174 million (including refurbishment). Australian boutique advisory group LS Global ...

Macquarie team joins Shaw and Partners

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Shaw and Partners is bringing over a team of seven from Macquarie Private Wealth to manage a new Canberra office. Stephen Johnson will lead the new Canberra team along with fellow Macquarie veterans Rod Sutherland, Tom Kenyon, Penny Ponder, Neil Robertson ...

ANZ appoints chief underwriter

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
ANZ Wealth has appointed a chief underwriter for OnePath Life Insurance. Peter Tilocca was appointed as acting chief underwriter following John Leonard's retirement in March, having previously been group underwriting and operations manager and senior ...

Advisers must seek alternative estate planning options: Austock

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... well after the date of the investor's death. Austock continues: "A bond can be structured to achieve intergenerational wealth transfers by using the multiple Life Insured feature, which can allow a bond's legal ownership to continue after the bond owner's ...

Sequoia announces acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... and accounting services firm InterPrac. Interprac "will add immediate scale, in particular to the SMSF Administration, Wealth Advisory and Investment Solutions divisions," Sequoia said in a statement, valuing InterPrac to be worth $12.38 million. Following ...

Advisers boost ethical investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... the mining sector as well." It has 27 members nationwide that includes: Fiducian Financial Services, DJ Carmichael, Novo Wealth, Just Invest Financial Planning and Ethical Investment Services.

Wealth firm lists on ASX with $7.3m IPO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
A wealth management and chartered accountancy firm is about to list on the ASX following an initial public offering of 7.3 million shares at $1 per share. Kelly+Partners (ASX: KPG) was established in 2006, currently operates 12 offices in Sydney and ...

Actor linked to Malaysian pension fund scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... The US Department of Justice is seeking to recover about $2 billion in assets misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund in a scandal with ties to the Malaysian prime minister's stepson and US actor Leonardo DiCaprio, among other notable ...