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Clime courts Madison Financial Group

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Sydney's Clime Investment Management has emerged as a bidder for Madison Financial Group, which is currently in the process of being sold by OneVue. Madison, which is home to about 100 advisers, was previously owned by Sargon Capital but fell into ...

Former Cbus advice head launches referral program

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
Cbus's former head of advice Greg Harper has launched a national referral program, looking to connect superannuation funds, accounting firms and other service organisations with financial planning groups. fpCentral, offered by Harper's firm ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
With more than one million people applying for the government's early release scheme, questions surrounding super fund ownership in equity markets have come to the fore. The government's scheme will so far put at least a $9 billion strain on Australia's ...

Superannuation startup launches raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
A superannuation startup is pushing ahead with a retail raise to be followed by an institutional one next month. GigSuper is aiming to raise $100,000 to $400,000 from retail investors, in a crowdfunded equity campaign launched yesterday. The fund is ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
"Flattening the curve". This is the overriding aim of governments and health officials everywhere when they implemented or advise social isolation, social distancing limits and lockdown measures. Many have (or are beginning to) flattened their respective ...

Sargon buyers tap former PEXA chief as adviser

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
PEXA's founding chief executive is understood to be advising Teddy Wasserman, as he readies a new group structure for Sargon's operating businesses. Marcus Price was the chief executive of Property Exchange Australia from 2010 to October last ...

Best MySuper products revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Rainmaker's latest MySuper benchmarking report has seen industry funds on top for market share and performance as at December end. For MySuper products with a single investment strategy (as opposed to lifecycle products) AustralianSuper was on top. ...

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Since the beginning of the year, America's wealthiest billionaires have seen their wealth increase by millions, with eight seeing their net worth surge by more than US$1 billion dollars. The latest research from the Institute for Policy Studies revealed ...

Industry fund redeploys executives

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
An industry superannuation fund has shuffled the roles of two of its senior management, elevating one to its executive line-up. Christian Super has moved its chief member officer Nathan Buttigieg into the role of chief - operations and product. As of ...

Risk advisers under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
This week's joint report from ASIC and APRA into life insurance and claims handling found superior consumer outcomes for group life insurance, leading a prolific law firm to suggest risk advisers add little to no value. Maurice Blackburn superannuation ...