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Pendal Group appoints international business lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... Tokyo and London. In her new role, Altinger will report to Gonzalez and be a member of the Pendal Group Global Executive Committee. The appointment will be effective 9 September 2019 and, as she will be based in London, is subject to FCA regulatory approval ...

Super body opposes member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
The Government's move to reintroduce its member interests superannuation reforms continues to rile pockets of the super sector. The national advocacy group for women employed in superannuation and financial services, Women in Super (WIS), has condemned ...

AFA expands support for paraplanners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... the founder of the UK certification body for financial services standards, Standards International, and recently led a committee to develop and launch a new standard for paraplanners. There is a special offer for paraplanners at this year's AFA conference. ...

Advice associations weigh in on member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... positions on the Government's latest round of superannuation reforms. In submissions to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee on the Putting Members' Interests First Bill that riled AustralianSuper earlier in the week, the Association of ...

Tasplan recruits new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... experience to the role and was also a former partner in Mercer's wealth business, chair of its Dynamic Asset Allocation Committee and Global Dynamic Asset Allocation Committee. Stuart replaces Ian Lundy who left the fund in March after two years ...

Adviser association rebrands, grows membership

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... Advice reforms. At one point, it had over 3000 registered members and 6000 advisers on the mailing list. UFAA's committee members include: Charles Alexander Financial Services principal Alex Vagliviello and Abacus Finance and Property chief executive ...

Industry fund appoints chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
A $2.7 billion industry superannuation has welcomed a new chair, as well as a deputy chair. Janet Torney has been appointed chair of Club Plus Super, while Steve Whan is the new deputy chair. Torney takes over from Tara Moriarty, who stepped down after ...

CFS hires executive manager of insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
Colonial First State has recruited an executive manager of insurance from AIA Australia. Baneesha Narang joins CFS after working as a technical manager of group insurance at AIA Australia for over eight years. Prior to that, she was an assistant product ...

OnePath receives first Life Code sanction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
OnePath is the subject of the first sanction to be issued by the Life Code Compliance Committee for failure to stop selling a non-compliant product and remediate customers by an agreed deadline. In July 2017 OnePath self-reported its ANZ Loan Protection ...

Reform implementation timeframe too short: AustralianSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019 in a submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, AustralianSuper head of insurance product Richard Land said the bill's implementation deadline is too short and will leave ...