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FAAA announces 2024 awards finalists

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) unveiled the finalists for this year's awards as it recognises members who exhibit the highest standards and professionalism. This is the second year the awards take place following the merger of the ...

Regal renews Platinum takeover talks

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
The potential takeover of Platinum Asset Management is back on the cards as Regal Partners confirmed it signed a confidentiality deed and will shortly commence due diligence. This follows a rejection of Regal's bid late last month, where Platinum's ...

Under the hood of a top global fundie

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
Investment management firm GQG Partners has achieved extraordinary success across its core strategies - global equity, international equity, emerging markets equity, and US equity. All these strategies belong to an exclusive club of long-only active ...

Partners Wealth Group appoints new head of distribution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
Partners Wealth Group appointed a new head of distribution, a former three-time Olympic gold medalist no less, for its wholesale investments division, Partners Private. James Tomkins, who was most recently a national sales manager at UBS Asset Management ...

AMP Advice expands network

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
The advising-arm of AMP continues to expand its network after reporting revenue growth in 1H24. Its advice revenue and revenue per practice have increased 16% and 11.6% respectively on the last quarter, AMP said. In addition, AMP said Melbourne-based ...

Australian Food Super picks TAL for group insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The $3 billion industry superannuation fund has transitioned its group insurance arrangements to TAL. It marks the end of a five-year mandate with AIA, which took over as the fund's group life insurer in September 2019 from MetLife. Effective September ...

Growthpoint sells down majority stake in six industrial assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
NASDAQ-listed alternatives fund manager TPG will acquire a major stake in six assets of Growthpoint Properties Australia's industrial and logistics portfolio. Terms of the agreement will see the US fund manager's subsidiary TPG Angelo Gordon ...

Platinum quashes Regal bid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Platinum Asset Management has rejected alternatives investment manager Regal Partners' takeover bid. Platinum's board unanimously decided that Regal's offer undervalued the company and wasn't in the best interests of shareholders. "The board of Platinum ...

AustralianSuper appoints first chief liquidity officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
AustralianSuper has appointed Chandu Bhindi as the fund's first chief liquidity officer, effective January 2025. Bhindi joins AustralianSuper from Commonwealth Bank, where he was responsible for the group's funding and liquidity and most recently as ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
The regulator's recent crackdown on risk and compliance in the sector has product issuers stuck between a rock and a hard place, with an extreme dearth of talent making it difficult for fund managers and super funds to meet ASIC's expectations. Earlier ...