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Fund manager charged with defrauding investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
A fund manager has been charged with misappropriating over US$7 million from retail investors who he had duped into believing he was an experienced and successful investment manager. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US charged Eric Malley ...

The barriers to limited advice: Licensees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
The increasing cost of delivering financial advice coupled with lack of guidance and strategy documents are the major barriers to limited advice, according to licensees. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) latest consultation ...

HESTA hires from Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
The $56 billion superannuation fund has hired Frontier's head of alternatives and derivatives. Michael Sommers has been appointed HESTA's general manager portfolio construction and risk and will join its investment leadership structure. Sommers ...

Retiree strategies need greater attention: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
Traditional portfolio construction needs to change to provide for the needs of retiree clients, new research shows. Fidelity International with the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and CoreData released a report Building Better Retirement ...

Challenger to buy industry-fund-owned bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
Challenger will spend $35 million to buy Catholic Super's banking business, in a move that Bell Porter says could have more upside than suggested by the company this morning. Challenger and MyLife MyFinance have entered into an agreement with an expected ...

Super industry to branch out: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
Over the next 15 years the Australian superannuation industry will evolve into a sophisticated and mature industry, according to Rice Warner's Superannuation Market Projections report. The new report takes a very positive view of the Australian super ...

QLD super funds advance merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
LGIAsuper and Energy Super will proceed with a merger that is set to finalise as early as 1 July 2021. The board of the two Queensland-based superannuation funds have signed a binding heads of agreement following a two-and-a-half month due diligence ...

Woman allegedly left out of will because she was born by artificial insemination

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
One of Australia's richest families is locked in a legal dispute over their father's will, which left out a child conceived by artificial insemination. The case raises the question - are children born by sperm donors or artificial insemination ...

Industry fund renews Link partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
A $54 billion superannuation fund has reappointed Link Group as its administrator. Cbus will continue to use Link's services in the areas of administration, system integration, innovation, data supply and security. The partnership will also provide ...

OneVue expands access on Xplan

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
The platform will increase the access to managed funds through quoted managed funds and distribution by integrating with Iress' Xplan. The announcement comes after the completion of Iress' acquisition of OneVue last month and will give access to quoted ...