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Fortius, PGIM make $214m property acquisition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021
Fortius Funds Management and PGIM Real Estate have partnered to acquire a Brisbane office building from LaSalle Investment Management. The two acquired 307 Queen Street in Brisbane CBD off-market for $214.48 million from LaSalle. The office building ...

Asendium partners with regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
Financial advice technology solution provider Asendium has added a risk and compliance feature via a new partnership with Fourth Line. Fourth Line will help advisers deliver risk and compliance reviews as part of their document preparation. The integration ...

Clime wants director removed

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
The chair of Clime Investment Management and one of its shareholders are calling for the removal of long-serving executive Neil Schafer. Clime has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting on August 6, putting forth a resolution to shareholders to ...

Ethical super could halve carbon footprint

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
Australians could halve household emissions across the country if their superannuation was invested in an ethical option, new calculations show. Australian Ethical found that every person in Australia changing to an ethical fund was equivalent to a ...

BTFM, Asgard Capital fined $3m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
The Federal Court will force BT Funds Management and Asgard Capital Management to pay $1.5 million each for charging fees for no service and making misleading statements. Between September 2014 and August 2017, the court found that the companies harmed ...

Get your ducks in a row before you think of an IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
For small financial firms looking to list on the ASX, ongoing regulatory action may be a deal breaker to going public, according to HLB Mann Judd partner Marcus Ohm. Ohm says an undertaking with APRA or ASIC can preclude a wealth, funds management or ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
There are structural issues with the ways in which companies handle sexual harassment complaints which inherently discriminate against victims, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference has heard. That was the message heard ...

Funds will fail YFYS test multiple times: Parametric

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
The latest researcher to run the numbers says as many as 20% of super funds could fail the Your Future, Your Super performance test in any given year, with a strong likelihood they'll fail again in the years to follow. According to Parametric modelling ...

Dixon Advisory to pay $8.2m to settle ASIC action

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
ASIC will drop its September 4 Federal Court case against Evans & Dixon's financial advice arm for $8.2 million and declaration of 53 contraventions. Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services (DASS) will pay $7.2 million in penalty and $1 million ...

BNY Mellon acquires Milestone

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
BNY Mellon will acquire Milestone Group, a funds management technology provider. The deal comes just over a year after the two companies formed an alliance to create a suite of oversight and contingent net asset value (NAV) services for asset managers ...