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Perpetual halves investment in embattled Star

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
Perpetual has almost halved its holding in embattled Star Entertainment as the casino operator continues to face governance and financial woes. Perpetual notified investors after the market close yesterday that it had sold 129.7 million shares at around ...

FAAA moves to combat adviser shortage with new partnership

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) India as it attempts to bridge the adviser gap. One of the main goals of the MoU, which was signed between ...

Australian Retirement Trust works to resolve ongoing outages

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) suffered an outage that saw many members' fortnightly pension payments delayed by several days. The nation's second-largest superannuation fund has been experiencing "intermittent technology outages" that have ...

E&P Financial advances delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
E&P Financial Group will delist from the ASX after shareholders narrowly approved the move at the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). Some 76.5% of E&P shareholders agreed that the company should delist at the EGM held on November 1. The delisting ...

ANZ suspected of more mistakes amid bond saga

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
The market regulator provided an update on its investigation into ANZ's role as joint lead manager and risk manager of the issuance of 10-year Australian government Treasury Bonds last year. The investigation, commenced April last year, is currently ...

JP Morgan subsidiaries fined $230m by regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
The fine relates to several failures by J.P. Morgan Securities and J.P. Morgan Investment Management, including recommending more expensive mutual funds when almost identical ETFs were available much cheaper. J.P. Morgan Securities (JPMS) and J.P. Morgan ...

Super complaints rise in FY24: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
AFCA's Annual Review revealed the ombudsman service received a record 104,861 complaints from consumers and small businesses in 2023-24, up 8% on the year before. Of those, AFCA received 7325 superannuation complaints, a 5% increase from the previous ...

Cbus implements senior redundancies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
Cbus has made several senior staff redundant in pursuit of its growth strategy. The $94 billion industry fund has let go of its head of compliance, acting head of brand and marketing, head of marketing, communications, and insights, head of strategy ...

Morningstar flags governance issues, leadership turnover at Cbus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
Morningstar has pointed out persistent leadership turnover and concerns about governance in a review of Cbus. "While turnover has not been high across the broader investment team and replacements have mostly been made, it's hard to view Cbus positively ...

CFS unveils fund manager, fee changes to FirstChoice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
Colonial First State (CFS) is introducing a bunch of fund manager, asset allocation, and fee changes to two of its FirstChoice products from November 16. For FirstChoice Employer Super, Platypus Australian Equities will take over as investment manager ...