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Diverger makes $65m bid for Centrepoint Alliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... under its belt, Diverger is looking to acquire 100% of Centrepoint Alliance. Yesterday, the listed advice group entered a call option deed with TIGA Trading and Thorney Holdings in respect of 19.99% of Centrepoint. This was followed by a non-binding ...

Advice requirements confusing, complex: JAWG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
The Joint Associations Working Group has told the Quality of Advice Review to reduce compliance burdens and to enable the delivery of affordable, accessible advice to more consumers. In a statement, the collective of professional associations called ...

Clear up uncertainty: AFA, FPA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
... and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have used their submissions to the Quality of Advice Review to call for regulatory certainty. Releasing their submissions yesterday, both industry bodies have called out the pressure that regulatory ...

Mason Stevens hires interim head of fixed income

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
Mason Stevens has hired Andrew Baume as interim head of fixed income, pending the outcome of a search for a top fixed income investment professional. Baume will report to investment chief Jacqueline Fernley. He replaces Jesse Imer who recently joined ...

The big case for big data

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... "Ultimately, we want to piece together the mosaic of how the world works, which gives us the ability to transition from what I call relatively simple models that are forecasting financial derivatives like earnings and cash flows, to dip down and go into ...

You can't have it all: Retirement income strategies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... to make a decision or receive financial advice. "If you look at those members, what are you going to do for them? We can call it 'soft default', we can call it whatever we want to call it, but they need something," he said. He added that there will also ...

Super industry levies insufficiently detailed: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
In a submission to Treasury about the proposed financial institution's supervisory levies for 2022-2023, ASFA has called for a more detailed dissection of APRA's regulatory activities. The industry body said: "It's incumbent upon regulators to provide ...

ASX-listed manager acquires retail boutique

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... risk. Like us, Burman Invest has focused on identifying those businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage (what we call 'moats') to protect them and strong growth potential from their current base," TIP Group chief executive Andrew Coleman said. ...

Systemic disadvantages create retirement insecurity: HESTA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
HESTA has submitted that applying the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) principles in Australia would lead to greater certainty and returns for super members. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said as a super fund ...

Reserve Bank shocks with hawkish 50bp increase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided to increase the cash rate target by 50 basis points to 85 basis points. The central bank also raised the interest rate on exchange settlement balances by 50 basis points to 75 basis points. At its meeting ...