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Financial advice drags BTFG results

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
BT Financial Group has farewelled a number of its advisers over the last six months as the group continues to offload its loss-making financial advice arm, its latest interim results show. BTFG has reduced its financial planning workforce by about 28% ...

Insurance expert joins $33bn super fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
A $33 billion superannuation fund appointed a group insurance expert as its new head of insurance. Shane Fielding joins Hostplus from insurance broking and consulting firm IFS Insurance Solutions, where he spent nearly 12 years in senior roles. Fielding ...

Colonial First State makes major fee cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
Colonial First State has trimmed its platforms fees, in a move it says will save $68 million in annual fees for 500,000 members. The fee reductions apply across its FirstChoice Wholesale, FirstChoice Employer Super and FirstWrap Plus platforms. They ...

Industry funds eye SMSF market stronghold

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Industry funds will shortly take the lead from SMSFs as the sector with the largest assets under management, new KPMG research predicts. KPMG's annual Super Insights report suggests by 2029, industry funds will have more than $2 trillion in assets and ...

$1.5bn pulled from Pendal

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
Westpac is pulling $1.5 billion of funds under management from Pendal Group over April as it consolidates its superannuation offerings. Pendal's management fee margin will be impacted by 0.31%, predominantly coming from multi-asset funds under management ...

Remediation to hit Westpac earnings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
Westpac's cash earnings in the first half of the year will be hit by $260 million in remediation payments. The bank today confirmed the amount could still rise, with the $260 million provision not yet inclusive of any allowance for refunds to customers ...

Westpac exits personal advice, restructures leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
Westpac is realigning its wealth strategy and BT Financial Group will cease as a standalone division. The group has also agreed to sell a number of advisers to Viridian Advisory. BT Financial Group will cease to be a standalone division of Westpac Group. ...

Slow but steady: SMSF growth continues

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
The flow of retirement savings from superannuation funds to the self-managed sector continues. But is the river drying up? Rainmaker analysis of APRA data shows total net flows between APRA-regulated super funds and self-managed super funds has steadily ...

Advice group appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
An advice licensee owned by HUB24 hired from BT Financial Group to fill a newly-created general manager role. Sonya Choi La Rosa is joining Paragem after six years at BTFG. She has 20 years' leadership experience, including senior roles at Mercer ...

ASIC appeals Westpac Federal Court decision

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
The corporate regulator is appealing last year's landmark Federal Court decision, determined to prove two Westpac subsidiaries provided personal financial advice despite not being licensed to do so. In December 2018, Justice Jacqueline Gleeson determined ...