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Lonsec to sell 37% stake to Generation

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... a significant proportion of Australia's leading fund managers, superannuation funds, advisory groups and wealth platforms. This investment in Lonsec will provide GDG with a highly strategic foothold in an attractive market niche of the financial ...

ASIC delays RG97 again

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... flexibility in light of COVID-19. Further, she flagged that ASIC will continue to develop its proposals on disclosure by platforms. "In the first instance, ASIC proposes to issue a consultation paper responding to the recommendations made by the external ...

Credit Suisse names preferred investment options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
Platforms are the preferred sector exposure, asset managers are inexpensive and Link Group offers the best mid-term value, according to Credit Suisse's Diversified Financial Services Sector review for August 2020. The report reviewed the key operational ...

Investors will be forced into equities: DeepData Analytics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... framework to help them identify the best risk/return investment options," Somasundaram said. "There are plenty of financial platforms out there but you need a PHD to get value out of them." Somasundaram said that while there are many models for asset ...

IOOF buys MLC Wealth for $1.4bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... wealth management services to all Australians." IOOF will acquire 100% of MLC Wealth comprising its financial advice, platforms and asset management business for $1.44 billion. The acquisition will be funded by a $1 billion fully underwritten institutional ...

AMP hires risk lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
AMP has appointed a head of risk, superannuation, retirement and platforms. Justine Gorman will step into the role, joining AMP from National Australia Bank where she was head of risk, wealth transformation program. Gorman spent approximately two and ...

Westpac offloads vendor finance business

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... chief executive Jason Yetton, who was appointed earlier in the year to review and ready the bank's superannuation, platforms, investments, insurance, auto finance and Westpac Pacific businesses for sales, demergers and spin-offs - said the sale would ...

Advisers bolt to cash, gold

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... fund has a long track record of providing returns which are superior to bank returns and those that are available on platforms. "It is very liquid and it allows advisers to improve the returns that they're getting on cash for their clients, relative ...

Platform business in administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... unaffected. "Our first task is to transfer the remaining financial planners and their clients off Spitfire Assets Managers platforms to new advisory software as quickly as possible. Company management had already undertaken much of this work as part ...

IOOF divests Australian Ethical

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... Australian Ethical's award winning funds will remain available alongside several other ethical investment options on our platforms." IOOF added that the proceeds from the divestment will be used to reduce debt and provide strategic flexibility for growth ...