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Advice group chief executive exits

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
The chief executive of an ASX-listed financial advice group is set to leave the company. Angus Benbow has led Centrepoint Alliance since 2018. He will leave the company on May 28. Centrepoint did not ascribe a reason to the departure in its ASX filings. ...

Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Westpac has settled a class action relating to life insurance sold through its financial advice network. The class action was brought against Westpac Group by Shine Lawyers in 2017. It claimed that between 2011 and 2017, customers who received financial ...

AMP Capital fails to stop fund merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
AMP Capital has failed in its bid to stop a merger between the Dexus Wholesale Property Fund and the AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund. Unitholders in both funds voted in favour of the merger. The AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund (ADPF) has ...

Cboe Chi-X takeover progresses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
Cboe's imminent takeover of challenger Chi-X is set to see the exchange gain significant scale. Chi-X chief executive Vic Jokovic said he would be staying on as chief executive after the acquisition. "We've signed. There'll be a deal in, I expect two ...

Perennial establishes ESG boutique

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
Perennial Partners has spun its ESG team and flagship ESG fund into a separate boutique investment business. Perennial Better Future will include the Perennial Better Future Trust and the associated active ETF, the eInvest Better Future Fund (IMPQ) ...

New board director at AFIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
The $9 billion LIC has added a former KPMG executive to its board. Australian Foundation Investment Company has appointed Julie Fahey as a non-executive director effective April 22. Fahey spent 10 years at KPMG as a partner, during which her roles included ...

Latitude IPOs despite spotted past

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
Latitude Financial has listed on the ASX on its third attempt with a market valuation of $2.7 billion, despite its past controversies. The company successfully listed yesterday, with one billion shares offered at $2.60 at the time of float before the ...

Centuria to merge with Primewest

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
Centuria Capital Group has entered a bid implementation deed to merge with Primewest, creating one of the largest real estate managers on the ASX with $15.5 billion in assets. Under the deal, Primewest shareholders will receive $1.51 per security made ...

Citi research head jumps to MST

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
Citi's head of Australian equities research has moved to boutique research house MST Financial. Craig Woolford made the move to MST after 16 years at Citi, most recently head of research for Australia. At MST he will be partner and senior research analyst. ...

ETFs crack $100bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
Nearly 20 years after ETFs started trading in Australia, their total assets crossed $102 billion at the end of March. There are now 220 ETFs listed on the ASX. In March, their investors made roughly 18,685 ETF trades a day with average daily trading ...