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Actuaries Institute chief resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... sustainability at Westpac and spent 10 years as the chief executive of the Australian Bankers' Association. Actuaries Institute president Jenny Lyon said Bell "has been an important part of the Institute and played an instrumental role in building our ...

The 50 names you need to follow

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... the full AFA 2017 National Adviser Conference Program click here. Celebrating 40 years of AFA conferences, AFA vice president and 2017 conference chair Michael Nowak said the conference has always been about growing his network and capabilities as an ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... Financial. Read all the details in our third and final conference newsletter, out Monday morning. #AFAau 5pm - AFA National President Marc Bineham closes the conference with a challenge - can the association's members encourage more people to seek professional ...

AFA shines spotlight on peer learning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... one-on-one with more recent entrants to the adviser community and impart their insights. Conference chair and AFA vice-president Michael Nowak said the association is excited to be offering advisers a forum in which members can benefit from the depth ...

Active debate triggers Fidelity fee overhaul

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... will move away from a flat fee model and get paid according to how well we do for our clients," Fidelity International president Brian Conroy said. "These changes will more closely align the performance of our business with the performance of our clients' ...

Media powerhouse turns financial product provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... other's expertise and resources to develop exciting new financial products for investors," Forbes Global Media Holdings president Peter Hung said. Value Partners boasts a suite of investment products spanning long-biased absolute-return equities, fixed ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump remains the stuff of headlines going into and since he won the 8 November 2016 US presidential election. Reports abound about Trump versus Kim, Trump versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and ...

CommInsure executive joins AMP

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... increased AIA's position as one of the biggest life insurers in the Asia-Pacific region; AIA Group chief executive and president Ng Keng Hooi said it will "strengthen AIA's protection market leadership and expand our distribution capabilities in these ...

SPIVA again scores active versus passive debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... fared better, with just 36.78% underperforming S&P's index. Speaking to Financial Standard recently, Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson provided an argument as to why there should be additional lenses to SPIVA when considering the performance ...

As clear as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... prevailing strong growth/labour market and below target inflation dynamics. There were those who argued - like New York Fed president William Dudley - that normalisation should go ahead because the current low inflation environment is due to "temporary ...