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ASFA publishes new service standards on claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... Financial Services Council. Former chair of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal Jocelyn Furlan chaired the broad working group. "This Service Standard will improve members' experiences in moments that matter. With strong collaboration across the sector ...

Drummond Capital names new research head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
Drummond Capital Partners has promoted Adele O'Shannassy to the role, acknowledging her growing leadership within the firm's investment team. O'Shannassy will lead research across asset classes, supporting portfolio construction and strategy ...

Activist investor hires distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... and fellow shareholders to unlock value for shareholders and investors. Its latest targets include Southern Cross Media Group, Magellan Financial Group, COG Financial Services and oil and gas explorer Karoon Energy - all now facing pressure from the ...

Ninety One strengthens multi-asset bench with senior hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... research that underpins our strategies." Ninety One's head of institutional for its Asia Pacific and Middle East client group welcomed the appointment. Justin Cowper added: "Multi-asset is at the nexus of our many specialist capabilities, with part ...

Acenda hires from Hostplus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... Lee Sammartino to the new role of general manager of superannuation partnerships, a key role in its drive for growth in group insurance. Sammartino, who began this week, brings nearly 30 years of experience in financial services, including superannuation ...

Fees for no service see former adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... fees were being charged despite no services being provided, and that she failed to report it immediately to Crown Wealth Group, her licensee. Further, she failed to investigate the conduct and implement systems to prevent it from happening again and ...

Global advisory firm acquires Boutique Capital

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... strategic expansion in Australia and New Zealand, including recent integrations of Bedford in Australia, and The Advisory Group and Rockburgh Fund Services in New Zealand. "This acquisition represents another transformative step for Acclime in Australia," ...

CareSuper to undertake cloud transformation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... transformation and the ongoing managed service maturity required." Macquarie Cloud Services head of Azure Naran McClung said the group is "seeing a wave of repatriation from AWS." "For many organisations, rising costs, and architectural limitations have ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... Between March 2019 and April 2023, he was found to have been involved in five companies: State Advice, Ansa Finance, AFSL Group, About Advice, and Advice Now. All the companies were operating a similar model to that of the business Fuoco was running ...

Elanor Investors courts suitors for possible takeover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... certainty that any of these NBIOs or other options to maximise value for all securityholders will result in a transaction," the group said. As part of the strategic review, Elanor has undertaken an asset realisation program which has so far resulted ...