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Industry embraces Mental Health Month

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
October is mental health month and the financial services industry is embracing it as a chance to boost the mental wellness of employees through a number of initiatives. SuperFriend has several initiatives planned for the month, including releasing ...

AMP advice lead rejects AMPFPA claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... pressure of the changes - particularly to BOLR contracts - placed on existing advisers, Wade said AMP takes the mental health and wellness of its advisers and employees "very seriously". "That's obviously a very serious topic and we understand there ...

AMP advisers to fight BOLR changes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... bankruptcy. "We are concerned about the potentially devastating flow-on effect of the financial loss in terms of the mental health of advisers, their families, and their staff, as well as the impact on their clients," he said. "What will happen to the ...

SuperFriend boosts leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... SuperFriend said the appointments come as key partners of the organisation express a growing need for targeted workplace mental health and wellbeing support in the wake of the Royal Commission. SuperFriend chief executive Margo Lydon said: "With our ...

Julie Bishop headlines AFA conference

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... Chelsea Pottinger will give a presentation on stress resilience later in the conference. She is an ambassador for mental health charities including R U OK? and the Gidget Foundation. AFA chief executive Philip Kewin said: "The AFA is pleased to be able ...

FPA moves to improve adviser mental health

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... profession, which the FPA acknowledges is putting exceptional pressure on advisers. The program is aimed at minimising the mental health impact transitioning to new education and regulatory standards will have on the over 14,000 advisers belonging to ...

Three new faces join SuperFriend board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... appointments. Sarah Guthleben from Equipsuper will join the board along with workplace health expert Niki Ellis and mental health campaigner Mitch Wallis. SuperFriend chair David Atkin said: "Sarah, Niki and Mitch's appointments will complement our longstanding ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... pre-school education; and $328 million to women's safety. The Government has also committed $461 million to youth mental health and suicide prevention support program, headspace. "Six years ago when we came to government the economy was weakening ...

Financial services industry digs deep for charity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... children. The money from FICAP will be going towards one of their programs which helps adolescents suffering from mental health issues who might end up in adult hospitals and therefore not have as much access to support. Financial Standard is the official ...

Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... Analytica brought up a broad range of issues and raised a lot of concerns about privacy, manipulative advertising, mental health and even copyright issues," he said. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, BetaShares removed Facebook from its Global ...