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Fiji National Provident Fund hunts active fund managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
The Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) is seeking active fund managers to oversee two strategies. The country's superannuation fund is on the hunt for fund managers to invest on behalf of its Global Listed Developed Market Equity Strategy 1 and Global ...

Invartis enters Australian market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
Strategic consulting firm Invartis is expanding into Australia with plans to provide services to support superannuation funds and wealth managers. The new office will be set up in Melbourne and Nigel Jansz has been named as country head - Invartis Australia ...

Regulation, profitability top adviser worries: BT

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
The heavy hand of the law and cost to run a profitable business are the two major worries of financial advisers, a new BT survey shows. Compliance burdens and constant legislative change are keeping financial advisers awake at night as 38% cited regulation ...

Global outfit acquires Vasco Trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
Vasco Trustees is to be bought by diversified financial services group TMF Group. Melbourne-based Vasco Trustees has been acquired by the group, which boasts more than 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, offering employee, financial and legal administration ...

AAT slashes adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... will now end on 24 April 2025. Between 30 September 2009 and 28 September 2015, Betalli was an authorised representative of Count Financial, and after that went to HNW Planning. He runs Betalli & Associates, a tax and accounting business, and The FP ...

Adviser exam yields 70% pass rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
The latest financial adviser exam results show that 70% passed the June sitting. Some 235 candidates sat the exam, with 165 passing. Of the total, 158 did so for the first time. There has been a total of 21,260 candidates who sat through an exam. Over ...

New technology chief joins GROW Inc.

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
GROW Inc. has appointed a chief technology officer, recruiting a former Canva and Google executive. Wendy Glasgow was named in the role, joining the growing administrator last month. She will leverage her global experience in technology and data to ...

HESTA returns 9.1% to members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
HESTA's default MySuper balanced growth option has returned 9.1% over the last financial year. The option has averaged an annual return of 7.62% over the past 10 years. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said that despite ongoing uncertainty in financial ...

Corporate borrowing hits all-time high despite interest rates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
The world's largest listed companies took on US$378 billion of net new debt last financial year, driving corporate debt to an unprecedented US$8.18 trillion, according to Janus Henderson's latest corporate debt index. While significant, the increase ...

ASIC takes action against Guildfords FM, director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
ASIC has cancelled the licence of Guildfords Funds Management and banned its managing director Robert Payne for their involvement in the collapse of Magnolia Capital Group. ASIC found "significant and systemic failures of oversight and compliance" upon ...