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VGI Partners confirms merger talks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JAN 2022
... Global Investments (VG1) and VGI Partners Asian Investments (VG8). It also offers individually managed accounts that target wealthy investors. VGI has been criticised by investors David Kingston and Malcolm McComas, who questioned its discount and fee ...

HESTA launches Future Planner tool

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... of planning for their retirement daunting. "It's a common misconception that financial advice is reserved only for the wealthy but that simply isn't true, everyone can benefit from some help or advice," he said.. "We want to remove these barriers." The ...

Wealthy overlook digital experience

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
Wealthy investors tend to shun technology and prefer to keep track of their assets manually, according to Praemium. The survey, conducted with Investment Trends, suggests a minority of high-net-worth investors (11%) access an online digital portal and ...

Domestic bias swells for HNWIs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... assets and over two thirds of Generation X want to do so. Crestone head of strategy and development Clark Morgan said the wealthy still rely on what's familiar. "Arguably their portfolios are still not as diversified as one would like, with still a strong ...

What family offices want: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... concentrated in the two states, with 41% in NSW and 31% in Victoria. Despite Sydney having the highest concentration of wealthy individuals and families, Western Australian family offices are the wealthiest in the country with an average wealth of $2.53 ...

HNW advice firm opens to retail investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2021
... tremendous experience and want to be able to help a wider audience - to put it bluntly, to help more than those who are already wealthy. Yet until now, they have had to regularly turn away people, simply because the economics of the traditional approach ...

UHNWs see net zero as business opportunity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... sustainable investments to constitute, on average, 47% of their portfolios in 2022 and 54% in 2027. And, overwhelmingly, the wealthy understand that their capital has the power to change the course of global environmental outcomes. The survey found 86% ...

How wealthy families protect assets no matter what

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... Walkers Private Capital partner Rupert Morris. Sharing his personal experience, McLeod said that over years of working with wealthy families globally he has observed that asset protection is their main concern, above all else. "Regardless of whether ...

Super, ASIC beneficiaries of advice challenges: Hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... was making "slightly facetiously". Continuing, Harrison said it's hard to see who the beneficiaries are other than wealthy individuals as they're the only ones who can afford to get advice. Falinski asked what options everyday Australians are ...

Family offices should supplement super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
Despite the raft of reforms aiming to make superannuation more attractive, wealthy Australians should consider supplementing their nest eggs, a wealth management expert says. HLB Mann Judd wealth management partner Michael Hutton says the passing of ...