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UK manager partners for Aussie distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
A UK asset manager specialising in delivering alpha through environmentally-friendly investments is partnering with an Australian business to market its capabilities to wholesale investors in Australia and New Zealand. Osmosis Investment Management ...

ASIC links previously banned adviser to court proceedings

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
A previously banned adviser has been added to ASIC's proceedings against Wealth and Risk Management and its related companies following a successful Federal Court application. Joshua Fuoco, owner of WRM and its related companies Yes FP and Jeca (trading ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
One of Japan's largest online broking platforms is soon to launch in Australia with a focus on self-managed superannuation funds and financial advisers. Within two months the Monex Group expects to be operating in Australia, providing clients with trading ...

Leadership changes at UBS NZ

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
UBS Investment Bank's head of New Zealand is stepping back from daily operations after 20 years with the company. After serving as country head for about seven years, Nicholas Ross will remain with UBS New Zealand supporting specific origination and ...

First home super scheme may not make it to parliament in 2018

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Bills to enact the First Home Super Savers Scheme, residential downsizing incentives, and a raft of additional superannuation and retirement policies announced following this years' Budget may not be introduced to Parliament before the end of the year. ...

Industry fund offers retirement income bonus

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
An industry super fund is offering retirement reward incentives of up to $11,520 to customers who sign up to the fund's retirement pension plan. The offer from BUSSQ, which represents a transfer of the fund's tax surplus - gained when members transfer ...

Aurora pushes for Hastings takeover

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
Aurora Funds Management is extending its takeover bid for all ordinary units in the Hastings High Yield (HHY) Fund. Unitholders will now have until September 29 to consider Aurora's offer. Aurora originally made the bid in November 2016, telling unitholders ...

Two appointments for BTFG life business

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
BT Financial Group made two executive hires for its life insurance business. Kim Cohen will drive product innovation and customer-focused solutions as the life insurance business' head of product. Cohen joined BTFG in 2008 as a life pricing actuarial ...

Advice licensees hit with $1500 levy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
ASIC has introduced a $1500 fixed levy on authorised financial advice licensees to cover the price tag of its costs recovery framework. The graduated levy for licensees comes off the back of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill, a law which ...

Crowe Horwath acquires Grafton accountancy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
Crowe Horwath added a Grafton-based accounting practice to its network, in what the firm described as a major step in its expansion strategy. Family-owned business R.G. Turns Accounting and Taxation has operated in Grafton for more than 25 years, and ...