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Sunsuper hires investment manager from Mercer

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
Sunsuper has appointed a new investment manager. Scott McNally joins Sunsuper from Mercer Investment Consulting, where he was a manager research consultant. Prior to that, he was an investment consultant at Sovereign Investment Research. McNally also ...

Private wealth specialist appoints chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
Boutique wealth firm Sterling Private Wealth is welcoming a new chief executive. David Murray joins Sterling from BT Investment Solutions, where he was a regional practice business manager for the BT Magnitude dealer group. Before that, he was a director ...

AZ NGA edges on $5bn with next acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
AZ Next Generation Advisory's acquisition of a Cairns-based financial advice practice brings the firm's total assets under management to about $5 billion. The binding purchase agreement with Menico Tuck Parrish Financial Services (MTPFS), established ...

APRA announces promotions, new hires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
Following the news of a funding boost for the regulator in the latest Budget, APRA added four new senior executives to its leadership team. Melisande Waterford, who has worked with APRA since 1998, will take on the newly-created role of general manager ...

Investment trusts receive affordable housing concessions

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
The Government is removing restrictions on managed investment trusts to facilitate new affordable housing developments. Investors will be able to pool funds into a professionally-managed scheme and receive concessional tax treatments assuming that at ...

Cuffe takes stake in Lennox small-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
Chris Cuffe's Third Link Growth Fund will provide seeding for a new small-cap strategy established under Challenger boutique network Fidante Partners. Lennox Capital Partners' Australian Small Companies Fund is available to retail and institutional ...

Federal Budget is a Ginger Spice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
The Government has handed down a "Ginger Spice" rather than a "Scary Spice" of Budgets this year, according to IOOF head of technical services Martin Breckon. Explaining himself, Breckon said the Budget appeared to be designed to avoid any comparisons ...

Government puts stopper on Future Fund drawdowns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
The Federal Government has said drawdowns from the Future Fund will not commence in 2020-21 in order to preserve returns. As per the Future Fund Act 2006, drawdowns from the Future Fund were expected to commence at this point to meet the unfunded liabilities ...

Government fintech agenda spotlights microbanking

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
The Federal Government will open the doors to disruption in the banking sector as part of changes to its revised fintech investment agenda. The 2017-18 Budget includes provisions for newer entrants into the banking industry, including the relaxing the ...

APRA and ASIC launch insurance claims pilot

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
APRA and ASIC jointly launched the pilot phase of an initiative to raise standards of public claims reporting in the life insurance industry. The goal of the initiative, initially mooted in ASIC's REP 498 report in October 2016, is for the two regulators ...