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Entireti appoints chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
The nation's largest financial advice group will welcome its first chief investment officer next week. Entireti has appointed Aman Ramrakha as chief investment officer, tasked with overseeing its investments solutions, including managed accounts ...

Government must commit to fixing CSLR: FAAA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager of policy, advocacy, and standards Phil Anderson is again calling on the government to fix the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). Th FAAA has previously highlighted three critical ...

Iress expands wealth team with multiple new roles

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... several newly created roles, including a general manager of wealth propositions, head of partnerships, and head of digital advice. The financial services software business announced the appointment of Tanya Martin as general manager of wealth propositions ...

Financial services deregulation boosts economy by $2bn: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
Reforms in funds management, financial advice, and superannuation will usher in an extra $1.7 billion per year to the economy and can make Australia a serious financial services hub, the Financial Services Council (FSC) says. New modelling shows that ...

Super admin providers face reckoning in 2025: Finura

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... "Super funds will be under intense pressure to modernise their technology infrastructure and member services (including advice). A perfect storm of poor procurement practices and relentless fee squeezing has made superannuation administration a horrible ...

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

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... Income Covenant. Top-10 status should be granted only to funds that have a proven record of providing useful retirement advice and guidance to their members. That is, funds that are taking seriously their obligations under the Covenant." The second recommendation ...

Iress sells superannuation business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... said Iress will continue to play an important role in the growth of the superannuation industry through the provision of advice and education software to funds and their members. "[This] announcement enabled Iress to double down on our core markets and ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... arrived from Future Group, where he was head of strategic research. He led the team responsible for providing strategic advice to the firm's investment committee and trustees. Before joining Future Group in 2022, Zhang was vice president of research ...

FAAA accuses government of crucial CSLR failure

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
The Financial Advice Association of Australia (FAAA) believes the government may have failed in its obligations when introducing the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) by skipping a key step. Following a review of documents the FAAA obtained ...

Research digs into HNW investment preferences

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... officer Denis Orrock said advisers are slowly embracing new technologies for greater efficiency. "Today the Australian advice industry is dealing with strong demand, an undersupply of advisers, shifting regulation and onerous compliance costs," Orrock ...