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LIC restructures to ETMF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... fund utilising the ASX AQUA rules," Shields said. "We are the first to do so, as far as I am aware, and I suspect we will not be the last." The restructure breaks the permanent capital nexus, with the new structure requiring the fund to manage more frequent ...

Interprac grows advice network

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... and Hobart. Interprac Securities will acquire Hobart-based FF Planning Solutions and Melbourne-based SFG Financial Services (not to be confused with Shadforth) by the end of this financial year. It will pay a total consideration of $500,000 that comprises ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
Inflation? What inflation? We need inflation. While many, if not most, of its central bank peers - led by the Fed -- are pushing back against inflation concerns, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) cannot seem to drive growth in the country's consumer prices ...

Sunsuper, QSuper appoint leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... process is now underway for these, the funds said. At the moment, Shane Channells is acting chief financial officer at Sunsuper. Not mentioned in the new lineup from Sunsuper's current leadership team is chief member officer Steven Travis, Petrina ...

Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... services, entertainment, retail, childcare, healthcare, mining services and financial services in Australia. The transaction does not include Investec's resource finance, and project and infrastructure finance loan portfolios. MCP is understood to ...

Hostplus holds on to MySuper top spot

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
Hostplus remained the best performing single-strategy MySuper option in the year ending April, as superannuation's rebound continued. The Rainmaker MySuper Index returned 18.7% in the 12 months to April. The month's returns were 70bps lower ...

Count Financial adds two practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... innovation and technology to achieve better client experiences as well as the fact that they operate a clean model which is not aligned to any financial institutions." She added that Count Financial's technology solutions enabled her firm to improve ...

Government to strengthen FMI

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
The government will soon introduce a regulatory reform package on Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) following a review by Australia's financial regulators. The Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) consisting of APRA, ASIC, Treasury and the Reserve ...

CFAs not immune to pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... reduction due to the pandemic (21% of respondents), and developing markets were more impacted than developed markets. There were not significant differences by gender or years of experience." The roles whose total compensation was most affected between ...

Cost of group insurance declines

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... insurance premiums fell by 7% to a four-year low of $8.7 billion. The research, conducted over 10 years, also revealed that not-for-profit (NFP) superannuation funds have cut their premiums more aggressively than retail funds, meaning that retail fund ...