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Platforms placate fee consent ordeal: SuitabilityHub

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Platforms have vastly improved their bulk processing capabilities, particularly as financial advisers come to dread the new fee consent renewal process, SuitabilityHub managing director Recep Peker says. This is one of the main findings in SuitabilityHub's ...

GQG records US$1.7bn net flows in January

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
GQG Partners has recorded US$1.7 billion net flows in January, bringing its total funds under management to US$160.4 billion. The firm recorded US$20.2 billion net flows throughout last year, nearly doubling its net flows of US$10.2 billion in 2023. ...

Centaur goes self-licensed, appoints former dealer group head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
Financial planning firm Centaur Financial Services has moved to its own AFSL and made a key hire in the process. Since 2015, Centaur has operated under a co-op licence with RFS Advice, Evalesco, and Guide Financial to reduce costs. However, Centaur ...

Super's operational infrastructure 'not quite right'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
The super sector's "underdeveloped" operational infrastructure has been highlighted as a main area of concern in a new research report from the Conexus Institute. The report highlighted failures in member servicing - which have been heightened in the ...

Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
The Senate Economics Committee has released its third interim report as part of the inquiry into Australia's retirement system. Senate Economics Committee chair Senator Andrew Bragg said the third report is focused around the "shocking governance ...

AMP profit dives as advice business sale bites

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
AMP's statutory net profit after tax (NPAT) slumped to $150 million in the 2024 financial year, nearly half the previous year's result, which the firm attributed to simplification spend and the sale of its advice business. The prior year's ...

Shift needed in retirement income advice: Allianz Retire+

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
A new report suggests that the adoption of retirement income philosophies and a new approach to risk profiling would see financial advisers better assist their clients in the retirement phase. Allianz Retire+'s Towards A Retirement Income Philosophy ...

Advisers must improve public awareness to win Australians' trust: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
Financial advisers will need to improve public awareness to win over millions of Australians, many of whom still don't know what an adviser does or how they add value, according to an intelliflo whitepaper. The emphasis to articulate what a professional ...

New starter at GCQ Funds

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Doug Tynan's GCQ Funds Management has picked up an Ellerston Capital manager to look after advisory groups in New South Wales and South Australia. Nathan Boroughs has been appointed distribution director and will work closely with GCQ distribution ...

PGIM inks joint venture for 20 Bridge Street

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
PGIM Real Estate is partnering with Anton Real Estate Partners to acquire 20 Bridge Street in the Sydney CBD - currently home to the ASX. Bought via the PGIM Real Estate Asia Pacific value-add strategy, the building is close to Circular Quay and key ...