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Centaur goes self-licensed, appoints former dealer group head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
Financial planning firm Centaur Financial Services has moved to its own AFSL and made a key hire in the process. Since 2015, Centaur has operated under a co-op licence with RFS Advice, Evalesco, and Guide Financial to reduce costs. However, Centaur ...

High-profile stockpicker hires from WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
A WTW operative has landed at high-profile stockpicker Geoff Wilson's Sydney-based fund manager which invests more than $6 billion on behalf of retail and wholesale investors. Nick Kelly has joined Wilson Asset Management as the portfolio manager ...

Wilson Asset Management launches Founders Fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
Wilson Asset Management has launched the Founders Fund this week, based on chair Geoff Wilson's view that founder-led companies outperform over the medium to long term. Documents on the new fund, which is backed by founder-led executives, chief executives ...

Top Pendal executive joins Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
Former Pendal head of multi-asset Michael Blayney has joined the Evidentia Group as a member of its investment committee. "With over 28 years of experience in investment management, consulting and superannuation with some of the world's leading ...

Bell Financial expects revenues, profits to rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Bell Financial Group (BFG) has said it expects to report an increase in full-year revenue and profit, ahead of its results announcement in February. The broker forecast that full-year revenues will rise 12% to $276 million (FY23: $247 million). It also ...

New investment fund to drive gender equality

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
Future Generation has launched a first-of-its-kind investment fund, dubbed Future Generation Women, investing in companies with prominent gender-diverse leadership, equitable pay, and policies that support the advancement of women. Minderoo has committed ...

Bell Financial takes lead on SelfWealth takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
SelfWealth is forging ahead with Bell Financial Group's (BFG) takeover of the trading platform as the latter raises its bid price to edge out its competitor. The two parties entered a scheme implementation deed in which BFG raised its bid price to 25 ...

Bell Financial Group bids $51m for SelfWealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
Bell Financial Group (BFG) is proposing to acquire SelfWealth for $51 million in a deal which both parties find "compelling." BFG said in offering 22 cents for each SelfWealth security, shareholders of the trading platform "will benefit through increased ...

Funds SA adds to leadership team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
Ahead of naming the new investment chief, Funds SA chief executive John Piteo has bolstered the leadership team by making a series of promotions. After a year in the top job, Piteo has elevated nine staffers in investment, finance and operations, analytics ...

GROW Inc. chief executive steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
Mathew Keeley, the co-founder of GROW Inc., is stepping down as chief executive of the budding administrator. Keeley informed staff of his decision this week, appointing executive chair Rob Johnston as acting chief executive. Brad Cooper has been named ...