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Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing requirements, and $1.7 million for the Attorney-General's department to bolster criminal justice and law enforcement capacity in the region. This will lift the government's development ...

Political risk pushes institutional investors to cash: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Institutional Investor Indicators for June, showing risk appetite fell 0.09 in June, revealing a modest risk off bias across the month. State Street Global Markets head of macro ...

Invartis enters Australian market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
Strategic consulting firm Invartis is expanding into Australia with plans to provide services to support superannuation funds and wealth managers. The new office will be set up in Melbourne and Nigel Jansz has been named as country head - Invartis Australia ...

ASIC levy to slug advisers $48.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... AFSL authorisation. AFSLs authorised to provide financial product advice to retail clients on basic banking products, general insurance, and consumer credit insurance will be charged $269,000 or $483 per entity. The 1097 entities that give general advice ...

AAT slashes adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... intentional or reckless. They did involve carelessness." "Having regard to all the relevant matters, including personal and general deterrence and the need to promote public confidence in the financial services sector the Tribunal considered that a ban ...

ASX delistings outpacing new market entries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
The latest EQT ASX Group Monthly Activity Report for June 2024 highlighted a significant trend of ASX delistings outpacing new market entries last financial year. The report suggested investors were increasingly pivoting towards private markets in search ...

Cbus MySuper investment option returns 8.35%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Cbus has reported an 8.35% return for its growth MySuper investment option for the last financial year. The $94 billion industry fund said that the option has averaged an annual return of 7.73% over the past 10 years. It has achieved an average annual ...

IFS launches two courses with Kaplan

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... sector gears up to offer more financial advice. The courses target super fund staff predominately working in call centres, general advice, and education delivery teams. The first program, Superannuation Industry Induction, is a foundational module that ...

Sequoia professional services lead exits, restructures business

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... large amounts of shares in Sequoia and have recently attempted to gain control of it. Shareholders at the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) in June rejected their motion for Brent Jones and Peter Brook to take up a seat on the board and oust chief ...

TelstraSuper produces 9.6% MySuper return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
TelstraSuper's lifecycle MySuper offering turned around 9.6% for all its members under 50 who have not made an investment choice. The result, which is net of all investment fees and taxes, demonstrates the value of its lifecycle structure, chief investment ...