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Spaceship returns 19.41% to super members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Spaceship's superannuation offerings have delivered some of the best results seen so far, with its flagship product returning almost 20% while the other achieved close to 17%. The GrowthX investment option, first launched in January 2017, returned 19.41% ...

ASX delistings outpacing new market entries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
The latest EQT ASX Group Monthly Activity Report for June 2024 highlighted a significant trend of ASX delistings outpacing new market entries last financial year. The report suggested investors were increasingly pivoting towards private markets in search ...

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 ...

Sequoia professional services lead exits, restructures business

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
Sequoia Financial Group's head of professional services, who worked with a group that attempted to overthrow the current leadership, has left the firm as part of an executive and structural shake-up. Brent Jones was appointed as head of Sequoia's professional ...

Former director disqualified for breaching obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
Having been involved in three failed companies, ASIC has disqualified a former financial services industry director for five years. Christian Oey was the director of two financial services companies between May 1999 and November 2018, Clickthru and ...

AAT mitigates adviser's permanent ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
The permanent banning of financial adviser Todd Karamian, who faked his exam result, has been slashed to seven years upon appeal. ASIC banned Todd Karamian in March 2023 after the Bluepoint Consulting chief executive and co-founder altered his Financial ...

RBA minutes confirm potential August rate hike

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released the minutes from its June board meeting at which it held interest rates steady, but confirmed it did consider the possibility of a hike. The minutes also confirmed the RBA is vigilant to the upside risks ...

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 ...

Aviva exits Australia, shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
Aviva Investors is shuttering its Australian office and moving operations offshore as it also terminates its strategy, the Multi-Strategy (AIMS) Target Return Fund. Aviva told investors that it has "recently made the decision to close the investment ...

GigSuper goes into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
GigSuper, the superannuation fund designed for the self-employed, has entered voluntary liquidation. GigSuper launched in 2017 in the hope of helping those working in the gig economy save better for retirement. It partnered with the likes of Deliveroo ...