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EG to target intermediaries

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... raising, and distribution. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Macquarie Group. "At the moment, we are building our product strategy for the next few years in private wealth," Weingarth said. Weingarth explained that the business was initially built ...

More than 40% of women unprepared for retirement: CFS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
About 44% of women are not financially prepared for retirement, according to Colonial First State. That's the key finding from the institution's consumer research, which showed a 13-percentage point gap compared to the 31% of men who feel the same. ...

ASIC succeeds in conflicted remuneration case

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... Club accepted more than $730,000 in conflicted remuneration from the referral agreement. The SMSF Club provided financial product advice and accounting and administrative services for SMSFs. Between August 2013 and 29 July 2013, SMSF Club was an authorised ...

DomaCom chief executive John Elkovich steps down

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... which provides specialist strategic advice services, covering areas like capital raising, marketing and implementation, product distribution and implementation, digital transformation and corporate change management. Moreover, he's been on the boards ...

Best default super funds revealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... in funds under management just over a year after its launch in October 2022, alongside the quiet rollout of a pension product. Close behind, Essential Super's Employer - Lifestage 1980-1984 option, managed by Colonial First State (CFS) for its investment ...

Advice PDMs, BDMs at inflection point: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... spread too thinly, being asked to service too many advisers, thus limiting their ability to add true value. "As licensees, product manufacturers and investment platforms think through their optimal adviser proposition for the future, it will be absolutely ...

ASIC takes further action on Prospero

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... foreign exchange contracts, deal in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts on behalf of clients and provide financial product advice in relation to these instruments. ASIC has asked the court to appoint Andrew Cummins, Jonathon Keenan, and Peter ...

Iress loses key wealth executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... financial software and data firm after just six months as it struggles to lift profits. The departure of Haqqani, chief product and operating officer for Iress' wealth business, comes as the firm reported a bottom-line loss of $137.5 million for ...

Platinum plans turnaround, FUM dwindles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... reorganisation of the investment research function, portfolio construction and risk management processes, and existing product design. Despite the changes, Platinum stressed that its "investment philosophy will not change". The half-year to December ...

Annuities too expensive for most retirees: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... combine the characteristics of account-based pensions, it added - however, providers would have to "vastly improve their product communications" to make this happen.