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Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... Australia. Grimes was the president of the International Federation of Accountants for two years and is a director on The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board. Challenger chief executive Richard Howes said Grimes brings an outstanding ...

UK pension fund fossil fuel investments laid bare

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... coal and 2% in oil and gas. Just 10 companies account for 70% of these investments, with BP, Royal Dutch Shell and BHP accounting for 40% of all direct investments. "Declaring a climate emergency may garner good headlines but too often it seems to stop ...

CountPlus profit down 53%

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
The ASX-listed advice and accounting group posted a significant drop in net profit from $11.9 million to $5.5 million in its half-year results. Released today, the results also show adjusted net profit attributable to shareholders jumped 65% to $4.1 ...

HUB24, Netwealth top platform rankings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... experience, while BT Panorama are providing SMSF trustees with a view of their external assets from their connected accounting software," Investment Trends said. Choi said many platforms recognise the need to expand functionality to integrate non-custodial ...

Wealth group makes acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
A subsidiary of ASX-listed accounting firm Kelly+Partners has made a tuck-in acquisition of a financial services group on the New South Wales Central Coast. The subsidiary will acquire a 51% stake in the group which includes private wealth management ...

Iress names chair, profit slides

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... addition, Iress reported a 9% drop in statutory profit to $59.1 million with recurring revenue increasing by 8% and accounting for 90% of total revenue at $542.6 million in its full-year results. Segment profit, which excluded the acquisitions of OneVue ...

SMSFs primed for best financial interests duty

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... to support the sector where it can. "As at September last year, there are more than 591,000 self-managed super funds accounting for $728 billion or around a quarter of funds under management," she said. "As [the SMSFA's] research shows, the driving ...

Class makes acquisition, profit up

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
The SMSF technology platform has announced the acquisition of the documentation service of an accounting software provider and recorded a 3.2% increase in statutory profit to $3.2 million in its half-year results. Class is acquiring ReckonDocs for an ...

Fund manager expands, hires two executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... banking division for over three years. A qualified accountant, Titley spent nearly a decade working across a range of accounting disciplines, namely with consulting firms Ernst & Young, FRP Advisory and BDO Australia. Luke Behncke, Holon's executive ...

Australians Googling for advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... to Allan Gray's commissioned research. Overall, financial advice articles in the news increased about 61% from 2019, accounting for 17,500 relevant mentions in Australian trade and other news publications. The research also lined up the articles that ...