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Australian Unity hires from Centuria

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
Australian Unity has appointed Vijitha Yogavaran to the newly created role of fund manager for its Healthcare Property Trust (AUHPT), effective 20 January 2025. Yogavaran will assume responsibility for the oversight, management and external representation ...

HUB24 shutters Xplore Wealth MDA services

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
HUB24 plans to shut down its Xplore Wealth Managed Discretionary Account (MDA) services next year, with discussions underway with financial advisers to explore alternative options. The Xplore Wealth MDA has around $2 billion in funds under administration ...

Vanguard fined US$106m for investors' massive tax bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Vanguard US$106.4 million for "materially misleading" investors in the Investor Target Retirement Funds (Investor TRFs) about their future tax liabilities. The failings relate to Vanguard dropping ...

ETFs, global equities dominate retail portfolios: Data

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... Online Investing Report found that investors are increasingly interested in ETFs and international equities, which now account for a combined 20% of an individual investors' portfolios, up from 17% in the first half of 2024. In particular, it found ETF ...

Where to invest when local equities look expensive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
Australian equities are richly priced, yet local portfolios remain heavily skewed towards the domestic market; investors have avenues to seek out diversification and better value, according to Morningstar market strategist Lochlan Halloway. Australian ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... retirees' incomes by up to 25%. "Relying on personal financial advice to deliver better retirement incomes than solely account-based pensions drawn at the minimum is unnecessary and unrealistic. Good-quality advice would steer most retirees towards ...

Legalsuper hunts for CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Legalsuper is looking for a new investment chief, following the resignation of Paul Murray who departed the industry fund just nine months into the job. Chief executive Luke Symons confirmed that Murray resigned from the fund on 20 December 2024 for ...

TPB welcomes stay of sanctions against disqualified agents

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) has declined to stay or suspend sanctions imposed by the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) against disqualified tax agents in three separate cases. All three cases relate to misconduct on the part of tax agents ...

Mason Stevens rolls out super admin fee changes

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... Mason Stevens Super has made a slew of changes to administration fees, while also adjusting the expense recovery fee and account keeping fee from February 14. In what is the first change to fees since the product's 2017 inception, Mason Stevens has ...

Industry breaks records for assets, flows, and product launches

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
The Australian exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry has had a landmark year, breaking records pertaining to market capitalisation, net flows, and product launches. Last year, the ETF industry's funds under management (FUM) reached $246.3 billion ...