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Netwealth opens new office, grows team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... the platform, insurance and operation teams. Most recently, he was senior sales manager in adviser distribution for platforms and BT Life. Prior to that, he was business development manager at the company for 11 years. Netwealth joint managing director ...

HESTA joins ESG social media fight

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... "Because we invest members' savings across such long timeframes, it makes sense for us to look at the long term impacts of platforms like these and to advocate for their long term safety." Engagement with companies on these kinds of ESG issues is about ...

Colonial First State makes major fee cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
Colonial First State has trimmed its platforms fees, in a move it says will save $68 million in annual fees for 500,000 members. The fee reductions apply across its FirstChoice Wholesale, FirstChoice Employer Super and FirstWrap Plus platforms. They ...

Bravura circles competitor

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... shareholders will avoid the uncertainty and costs associated with the significant investment to renew GBST's software platforms, including the E-volve program to bring Composer to modern standards and the changes required as part of the ASX CHESS ...

$1.5bn pulled from Pendal

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... advice by September 2019. Within BTFG, Westpac will integrate insurance into the customer division, while private wealth, platforms and investments and superannuation will move into an expanded business arm. The financial adviser-established super segment ...

Banks push to leave vertical integration on the table

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... integration model that allowed them to control the entire wealth stack: funds management, financial advice, superannuation and platforms. In a submission to the inquiry, the ABA said it had significant concerns with the bill, and noted previous inquiries ...

ASIC approves AMP for MDAs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... ASIC's previous no-action position on MDA services, to modified licenses allowing them to deal in MDAs on regulated platforms. That transitionary period expired in 2018 and as such, AMP's advice business was required to seek a variation of its ...

KPMG partner moves to GROW Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... overseas, as well as implement the TINA platform, GROW's blockchain-enabled technology for superannuation funds and wealth platforms. Gee was a long-serving executive at KPMG Australia, firstly joining as a director in April 2002. He left 11 years later ...

NZ Super responds to Australian social media laws

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... if their company does not act expeditiously to remove abhorrent violent material. They also state that social media platforms internationally must notify the Australian Federal Police if they become aware of any abhorrent violent material on their platform ...

Consumers don't understand fee disclosure: ISA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... current proposal by ASIC only serves to reinforce the inconsistent and confusing fee disclosure structure - whereby platforms owned by banks and investment managers would only be required to disclose the cost of gaining access to a product, not the cost ...