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HESTA names chief financial officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
With 20 years of experience spanning the finance, healthcare and government sectors, Natalie Kelly was appointed finance chief after serving in an interim capacity since March. Kelly joined the $82 billion industry super fund after Sally Collins quit ...

ASIC clamps down on advisers, trustees cold calling

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... anti-hawking laws to cover cold-calling advisers who charge up to $6000 to roll members into an inappropriate fund. The government allows telemarketers and cold-calling businesses to make unsolicited calls during certain hours - weekdays between 9am ...

ATO flags key focus areas this tax time

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
... of mistakes in July where people have forgotten to include interest from banks, dividend income, payments from other government agencies and private health insurers," Thomson said. For most people, this information will be automatically pre-filled in ...

ART names advice and education leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
... second-largest superannuation fund, and Evan Poole has been appointed head of practice management. Cordero previously headed up government and stakeholder relations within ART's commercial division. Here, he managed ART's single largest customer ...

Global X launches new gold ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... believes gold prices are well supported. Statistically, the best two predictors of the gold price are real yields on US government debt and the strength of the US dollar. With markets forecasting these to possibly fall late in 2024 or early in 2025 ...

Treasury shakes up foreign investing framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... the nation a more attractive place to invest, and at the same time boost economic prosperity and productivity. The government will implement a more robust and efficient framework to scrutinise complicated or higher-risk proposals and dedicate more resources ...

Crescent Wealth to merge into Russell Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
Crescent Wealth Superannuation will shut down next month; its members will be moved to the new 'Salaam' division of Russell Investments Master Trust. Following a review by Equity Trustees, the trustee for Crescent Wealth's super fund, an ...

Institutional investors eye increased exposure to Vietnam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... will pave the way for billions of pounds to pour into Vietnam's capital markets." Dragon Capital noted the Vietnamese government's 2030 Stock Market Development Strategy, approved in 2023, targets a market capitalisation of 120% of GDP, doubling the ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
Fund managers that rely on "golden visas" to attract rich investors are waiting with bated breath as the government overhauls Australia's "broken" migration system. Recently, Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neill froze the ability of fund managers' ...

FSC expands financial advice membership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... he looks forward to contributing to a strong, unified industry voice that ensures reform remains a priority for the government. The FSC also appointed Australian Unity chief executive for wealth and capital markets Esther Kerr and J.P. Morgan Asset Management ...