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EFM appoints EQT on Aussie launch

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
EFM Asset Management is entering the Australian market and has appointed Equity Trustees as the responsible entity for its local offering. The Hong Kong-based global equities specialist is launching the EFM Global Financial Services and Technology Trust ...

Boards should be "strap-on brains": Cosgrove

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Retired Governor General Peter Cosgrove has offered some words of advice to corporate Australia on the role of boards and leaders. Cosgrove delivered a speech on leadership strategies through good times and bad, drawing on his military experience, at ...

More flexibility for retirees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
The government has introduced more flexibility for older Australians by abolishing the work test, extending access to downsizer contributions and improving the Pension Loan Scheme. From 1 July 2022, those aged between 67-years-old and 74-years-old will ...

Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
Buried deep within budget documents are several steps the government will take to further boost our financial system, including greater powers for regulators and $11.2 million to enhance super fund member outcomes. While far from the headline measures ...

Fiducian acquires Adelaide adviser's FUA

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... Australians can access personalised financial advice, but also in our cultural DNA to help those Fiducian financial planners who wis to move their families to other locations," Southall said.

Rest executive to retire, GM appointed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
As its group executive, people, finance and change prepares to retire, the $62 billion industry fund is welcoming a new general manager and recruiting for its first chief financial officer. Trevor Evans is set to retire from the group executive role ...

KPMG recommends super changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
KPMG says SG contributions should be included in the Commonwealth Paid Parental Scheme, among three recommendations to level the gender gap in the workforce. Its recently published paper Towards a more equal sharing of work says since the 1970s, the ...

JPMAM Australia chief to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
After more than a decade with the business, J.P. Morgan Asset Management's local chief executive Rachel Farrell is set to retire later this year. Farrell first joined JPMAM in Singapore in 2011 as head of sovereign and institutional clients, South ...

Evergreen partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
Evergreen Consultants has launched a multi-asset portfolio with 18 external managers that is implemented via Generation Life's tax-effective structure. The Evergreen Responsible Growth Model is a tax-effective investment bond that will target a ...

Hamilton Wealth Partners co-founder leaves

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
Melbourne advice firm Hamilton Wealth Partners' co-founder and chief operating officer has left the business after eight years. Ian Gillies was also a partner and a financial adviser. He leaves as he heads into semi-retirement at the age of 64. His ...