Two financial advice businesses are to merge in a bid to create a multidisciplinary professional services firm as part of AZ NGA’s “super firm” strategy.
Three solutions providers – Betashares, Franklin Templeton and Russell Investments – have all launched new ETF products, including one range which uses gearing to help build wealth.
While the Financial Services and Credit Panel can take action on individual advisers’ misconduct, a compliance professional unpacks why the panel does not always subject licensees to further action.
High entry requirements are vital to ensure fund management remains competitive, according to Blackwattle’s managing director Michael Skinner, as the firm approaches its first anniversary.
Forager Funds Management has shared its rationale behind delisting its Australian Shares Fund from the ASX in favour of structuring it as an open-ended unit trust.
Michael Lovett, who left the investment giant just three months after launching its Vanguard Super offering, has taken up a CEO role at an Australian asset manager.
Apostle Funds Management has appointed the newly created position of director, head of wholesale as the firm expands its Australian footprint in the wholesale sector.
Platform HUB24 has reported $100 billion funds under administration in its latest quarterly results, helped by a 90 per cent rise in platform net inflows.
The Rask Group, in partnership with InvestSMART’s new investment platform, has announced three ETF strategies, aimed at empowering financial advisers to create and manage their own ETF portfolios.
As fund managers look to enhance efficiencies and reduce operating expenses amid active underperformance, former abrdn managing director Brett Jollie shares how to successfully do so.
