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Super investment poorly communicated

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia believes the super industry has done "an extraordinarily bad job" of communicating its investment story to wider Australia. Opening the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment ...

GPS Wealth launches advice solution

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Independently owned dealer group GPS Wealth has launched a limited advice software package for accountants. Following the release of MoneyBowl for Advisers in July, MoneyBowl for Accountants features an automated personal financial management (PFM) ...

ASFA names KPMG partner as new CEO

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has named its new chief executive to take over from Pauline Vamos, who stepped down in July after nine years with the industry body. Dr. Martin Fahy, who is currently a partner in management ...

CommSec hit with $700,000 fines

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
CommSec has paid $700,000 in infringement notice penalties and voluntarily refunded $1.1 million in brokerage. The infringement notices were given by ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel, which the regulator said "had reasonable grounds to believe CommSec ...

Low rates signify opportunity for reinvesting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Australia should start thinking about historically low rates as an opportunity for reinvestment, according to Vanguard principal and head of investments, Vanguard Asia Pacific Rodney Comegys. Addressing the Vanguard ETFs in Practice forum in Sydney ...

Voya names new chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Voya Investment Management has promoted its chief investment officer of fixed income to the role of chief executive. Christine Hurtsellers, who has been fixed income CIO since 2009, officially took over the reins on 1 September, reporting to Voya Financial's ...

Omniwealth acquires mortgage broker

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Advisory group Omniwealth has acquired a mortgage broker to meet the firm's future demand in property and finance, as well as add more expertise to the diversified financial services company. Omniwealth group managing director Matthew Kidd said purchasing ...

New board members, partnership for BondAdviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
BondAdviser has made two key board appointments and has partnered with a national independently owned financial advisory firm. BondAdviser has appointed Steve Dammerer as chair and Graeme Abram as a non-executive director. Dammerer has over 30 years' ...

Frontier appoints associate

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
Asset consultant Frontier Advisors has hired a new associate, marking the tenth consulting team appointment in the past year and expanding the firm's staff to 54. Joining Frontier from 26 September is Madeline Chelper. She will be involved across a ...

QIC appoints global fixed income director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
QIC has appointed a new director - global fixed income and absolute return. Based in London, Paul Nicholson joins QIC from Vontobel Asset Management, where he spent five years as head of absolute return bond strategy. Prior to that, he was a portfolio ...