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Centrepoint Alliance to acquire Brighter Super's advice book

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Centrepoint Alliance has entered into an agreement to acquire the comprehensive advice book from ESI Financial Services, a wholly owned entity of Brighter Super. The transaction will see up to 400 clients, generating $1 million in annual revenue, transition ...

Japan's first digital investment platform for private assets goes live

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Tokyo-based financial services firm Keyaki Capital has launched what its describes as a "first of its kind" online platform to exclusively offer private equity, private credit, and other private asset investment funds to Japanese high-net-worth investors. ...

Coalition targets 'ambitious' goal of 30k advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... duplicative, inconsistent, and costly - for advisers and consumers alike. Thus, the proposed creation of a financial services deregulation taskforce is needed and welcome," Abood said. "We applaud the Coalition on its ambitious target of 30,000 advisers. ...

AMP shareholders approve executive pay

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... 91.8%. Also, that year, the remuneration committee conducted an external review of market remuneration for the financial services sector. Addressing the AGM last week, newly appointed AMP chair Mike Hirst said: "As a result, the committee agreed that ...

Private wealth group splashes $182m on Hejaz

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... has scored $181.8 million (€100m) in funding from an unnamed UAE-based private wealth group. The Islamic financial services provider seeks to scale its Sharia-compliant offerings with the cash injection in property, auto, commercial and development ...

New SEC chair affirmed, FCA chief reappointed

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... joining with us, along with our dedicated staff, to fulfill our mission on behalf of the investing public." Financial Services Institute (FSI) chief executive and president Dale Brown was supportive of the appointment. "We congratulate Paul Atkins on ...

American Century appoints local sales VP

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... most recently as vice president and regional director in the advisor services team. He started his career in financial services in 2004 at First State Investments in Edinburgh on the Asia-Pacific and emerging markets investment team. Over his two decades ...

NPP not suitable as the primary payment system for payday super

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... SMEs to seek alternatives like Xero or MYOB to process super payments. SMEs, which includes a vast majority of financial services businesses, will need to adhere to the new rules despite existing burdens already in place. "At a time when SMEs are already ...

Three AFS licensees pinged over compliance breaches

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... and registered with ASIC before providing personal advice to retail clients. A relevant provider includes a financial services licensee, an authorised representative, or an individual employed by or acting as a director of a financials services licensee ...

Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... between authorised deposit-taking institutions, institutional investors, and wealth managers. "The banking and financial services market is experiencing strong growth, with increasing demand for direct investment in secure, low-risk, income producing ...