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Netwealth releases adviser toolkit

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... offices. The first release focuses on customer experience and journey. The netwealth customer Journey Map workshop puts the employees in the shoes of clients through team activities, the platform business said in a statement. Netwealth joint managing ...

Pension fund names new investments lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... funds will welcome a new chief investment officer, charged with overseeing $510 billion in assets. The California Public Employees' Retirement System has appointed Yu Ben Meng to the role, replacing Ted Eliopoulos. Meng joins from the US' State Administration ...

Freedom drops chief, slashes workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... company. The departures come as part of a restructure, following a business review. As at June 2018, Freedom had 229 employees, the majority (165) were call centre sales and customer service staff. Following the restructure, which was conducted with ...

Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... that will likely face a raft of reforms following the inquiry. The interim report asked whether any customer-facing employees should be paid a commission or variable remuneration for selling a bank product. It also challenged the remuneration for the ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... daily activities diary. Orr added van Eeden accepted the poor conduct ran over a number of years involving numerous TAL employees who weren't subject to disciplinary consequences. In the case of an insured who innocently failed to disclose certain information ...

TCorp restructure rolls on

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... construction. Earlier this month TCorp confirmed the departure of Peter Laity and the internal promotion of two investment team employees.

Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... de Lange said the offering was borne out of the firm's own search to find the right superannuation fund for its employees. Examining several aspects such as industry versus retail funds and default versus choice, de Lange said the right option was ...

WAM Capital commences LIC takeover bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... shares, it will undertake a strategic review of the company including its strategy, operations, activities, assets and employees based on the information that becomes available to it then and to which it currently doesn't have access. The review will ...

Pension funds feel the heat on climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... QSuper ranked equal 64th alongside funds including the UK's Electricity Supply Pension Scheme and the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System. This also attracted a D-rating. From a regional perspective however, Australian funds did outperform those ...

BTFG faces possible union action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
The Finance Sector Union is planning urgent workplace meetings and teleconferences with BT Financial Advice employees impacted by a planned restructure of BT Financial Group's advice offering. Last week BT Financial Group told Financial Standard ...