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AFMA names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
The Australian Financial Markets Association appointed a new chief executive who is a former APRA executive. Brett Harper takes the post on October 11. He was most recently spent three years as a director at Promontory Australia, providing consulting ...

MSC Group hires exec director, eyes Sydney

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
The Melbourne-based trustee firm has hired an executive director as it looks to expand into Sydney. Phil Joseph has 40 years of experience, most recently as an executive director at AMAL Trustees. He spent 15 years at Perpetual and has worked on other ...

Demand soars for global equities ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... its second largest quarter on record with over $2 billion in inflows, namely across Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF (VAS, $766 million), Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGS, $404 million) and Vanguard Diversified High Growth ETF (VDHG ...

AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has slammed the Labor Party's attack on financial advisers, which paints the profession as dodgy and continues to rip-off consumers. AFA acting chief executive Phil Anderson is calling for an end to the "persecution" ...

Forex CT cops $20 million fine

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
The Federal Court has handed down a $20 million penalty to Forex Capital Trading for engaging in a system of unconscionable conduct, including the use of high-pressure sales tactics, conflicted remuneration and failing to act in the best interests of ...

Advisers report burnout, breaking point: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
High levels of stress and anxiety are tempting 42% of financial advisers to exit the industry, as reports of burnout underscore the toll their work is taking on their physical and mental health, new research suggests. The inaugural Wellbeing of Financial ...

Research firm launches, hires Macquarie exec

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
A global fund manager research and benchmarking firm has launched in Australia, appointing a former Macquarie Group executive to lead the business. David Goodman is the new managing director of Inalytics for the Asia Pacific region. Goodman was most ...

State Street to track Bitcoin

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
The global investment giant State Street has launched a new Bitcoin Thematic Indicator to track the impact of Bitcoin on more traditional financial markets. The new State Street MediaStats Bitcoin Thematic Indicator series will quantify media coverage ...

AMP Capital invests in India

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
AMP Capital has made its inaugural infrastructure debt investment in India, co-financing a deal that will help build major roads for the country. AMP Capital is committing about US$73 million to listed road infrastructure company Sadbhav Infrastructure ...

Value of internet search for stock markets revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
New research from RMIT has found that suppressing internet searches creates stock market instability. The research reviewed the impact on stock markets of Google's decision in 2010 to unexpectedly withdraw its search business from China. It found that ...