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Colonial First State cuts fees, closes legacy options

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
Colonial First State has cut fees for about 200,000 members and will close some legacy options in FirstChoice Employer Super, as it simplifies its product line and phases out grandfathered commissions. The changes are across retail products (legacy ...

Raiz cuts AET amid Sargon saga

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
The board of investment platform Raiz has replaced Australian Executors Trustees (AET) as its independent custodian, in what comes as the latest development in the Sargon saga. Raiz has appointed Perpetual Corporate Trust as its new independent custodian ...

Challenger recruits Generation Life co-chiefs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
Generation Life's co-chiefs have landed a joint general manager role at Challenger, a month after resigning from their old jobs. Lucy Foster and Catherine van der Veen have been hired as Challenger's general manager for advice transformation ...

ASIC turns up the heat on enforcement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
One year on from a Royal Commission lambasting, ASIC is continuing to increase its efforts to chasten large institutions for misconduct, latest enforcement activity numbers show. In its latest six monthly report into its enforcement and regulatory work ...

Janus Henderson to launch active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
The global manager is getting ready to list a fixed income active ETF on the Chi-X. The Janus Henderson Tactical Income Active ETF (managed fund) is expected to list on Chi-X soon with the ticker TACT. The active ETF will have exposure to cash and fixed ...

Three ETFs axed by Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
Dwindling client demand will see Morningstar analysts cease coverage on two BlackRock ETFs and a BetaShares product next month. From March 20, it will no longer publish qualitative research on iShares MSCI Japan (IJP), iShares China Large-Cap (IZZ) ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) reported that the economy added 13,500 jobs in January - more than market expectations for an increase of 10,000 - with the creation of 46,200 full-time positions more than offsetting the termination of ...

Ellerston LIC chair resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
Ashok Jacob has resigned as the chair of the $143 million Ellerston Asian Investments, as another Ellerston LIC looks to delist after being pursued by an activist investor. Ellerston Asian Investments (EAI) will now be chaired by Bill Best, who has ...

Count Financial treads new path

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
Count Financial is preparing for a rough couple of years as it transitions to a new pricing model. That said, the amount of advice being produced by the licensee has more than doubled despite losing 26% of its advisers. In its 1H20 results announcement ...

SMSFs interrupted in 2019: SuperConcepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
In providing a technical update, SuperConcepts general manager of technical services Peter Burgess has said many of the reforms set to impact SMSFs proposed last year are still yet to eventuate. Speaking at the 2020 SMSF Association conference, Burgess ...