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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' Significant ...

FSC expands financial advice membership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
The Financial Services Council (FSC) is expanding its remit into the financial advice sector by adding six licensees to its network of members. Count, Fortnum Private Wealth, Infocus, Otivo, Rhombus Advisory, and WT Financial Group have joined FSC's ...

Proposed super tax obfuscates legacy pensions rules: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... SMSFA chief executive Peter Burgess said. Treasury has confirmed, Burgess said, that the intent is for a self-managed super fund (SMSF) paying a complying lifetime or life expectancy pension to use the Family Law Split factors in the relevant Schedule ...

Impact Alpha Partners adds to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
The budding consulting firm has added the former chief executive of Blue Orbit Asset Management and U Ethical Investors' former head of ethics and impact. Impact Alpha Partners was founded late last year by Andrew Huang, a former senior investment manager ...

Franklin Templeton's Brandywine Global launches new fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... Templeton investment manager Brandywine Global has expanded its product suite with the launch of a Global Opportunistic Equity Fund for Australian investors. The $2.4 trillion asset manager said the fund will invest in 60 to 100 global companies and ...

Actuaries Institute proposes new performance test measure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... Institute said the test should include two metrics: the current one and a new risk-adjusted performance measure for super fund products. "This two-metric test would ensure trustees can continue to have confidence around decisions they've already made ...

First Sentier axes investment units, AUM takes $14bn hit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... year, FSI lost $12 billion of client money invested across several managed funds. The First Sentier Wholesale Imputation Fund, which took the biggest hit, recorded a net return of -2.5% in the year to March 2023, while its benchmark reported -0.6%. More ...

LIT delisting simplifies Forager: CIO

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... to simplify the business. Chief investment officer Steve Johnson wrote to investors that if the Forager Australian Shares Fund (FOR) is delisted, the fund manager will go back to running "two simple open-ended funds with the same Responsible Entity and ...

MSC Certane wins Suncorp mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... strategy. Suncorp is issuing the notes to raise Eligible Additional Tier 1 Capital, the proceeds of which will be used to fund the capital needs of the Suncorp Group and for general corporate and funding purposes. The MSC Group acquired Certane CT (formerly ...

JANA appoints new director of client development

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
JANA Investment Advisers has announced the appointment of Habib Chebli as director, client development. Chebli will be based in Melbourne and will be responsible for relationships with wholesale and institutional clients. He will be focused on enhancing ...
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