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Suncorp nabs business, private banking executive

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
Suncorp has hired a former business and private banking executive from the Commonwealth Bank, set to guide the group's path towards digitisation and automation. Adam Bennett has nabbed the chief information officer role, and will join Suncorp from July ...

Men gamble ERS payment away: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
New data released by illion and AlphaBeta (part of Accenture) shows that there are vast differences in how early release of super payments are being spent between the genders. While women who access their super early are more likely to spend on essential ...

Centuria launches takeover bid

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The ASX-listed $7.2 billion real estate investment manager has launched a takeover bid for New Zealand-based Augusta Capital, set to acquire the firm's remaining shares for $122 million (NZD$130 million). It comes just over a month after Centuria Capital ...

Global boutique reduces fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
GQG Partners has reduced the management fees for its GQG Partners Global Equity Fund and the GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund. Management fees for the global equities fund has been reduced from 0.90% to 0.75%, and management fees for the emerging ...

FPA accuses ASIC of price gouging

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has hit back at the corporate regulator accusing it of price gouging after increasing the industry funding levy for financial advisers by 38%. The FPA has urged the corporate regulator to reconsider the ...

Cbus names head of infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The $54 billion industry superannuation fund has hired from AustralianSuper to appoint its new head of infrastructure. Cbus will welcome Alexandra Campbell to the role, bringing extensive experience in the infrastructure sector across both funds management ...

Industry fund drops Rio Tinto amid sacred site outcry

HARRISON WORLEY, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Rio Tinto has been excluded from two portfolio options of a major industry superannuation fund following its destruction of 46,000 year old Indigenous heritage sites at Juukan Gorge last month. First State Super has dropped Rio Tinto from the diversified ...

Major OneVue shareholder says IRESS bid too low

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Billionaire investor and OneVue shareholder Alex Waislitz says IRESS's offer to acquire OVH for 40 cents a share is a far cry from the company's actual value. Waislitz's Thorney Opportunities and related companies started buying stock in ...

Zenith defends LICs/LITs

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Zenith Investment Partners maintains that there is still merit in listed investment companies and trusts, despite volatile market conditions exacerbating their propensity to trade away from their underlying value. Zenith head of real assets and listed ...

JBWere appoints advice general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
JBWere has followed up last week's appointment of a new chief investment officer with a new general manager of advice. Andrew Bird, who was most recently JBWere's head of advice for Victoria, is moving into the role of general manager, advice ...