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Platform hires former Netwealth distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... with a rival managed accounts and platform provider. Nick Mitchell has been appointed co-head of distribution at Mason Stevens. In the new role, Mitchell will be responsible for Mason Stevens' new Melbourne office, working to maximise distribution ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... helps explain the seeming impotence of the RBA's rate cuts so far - from five years ago when then RBA chief Glenn Stevens declared that, "I've allowed the horse to come to the water of cheap funding, I can't make it drink". And it's still ...

New executive role at Colonial First State

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
Colonial First State has created a new C-suite role, and has confirmed an interim replacement for Peter Chun who joined an industry fund earlier this week. Todd Stevenson has been appointed CFS's chief member outcomes officer, after nine years with ...

Chief economist update: Morrison, Frydenberg cannot have their surplus and eat it too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... the recommendations of the Royal Commission. The RBA (under Lowe) suffers from the same impotence the RBA under Glenn Stevens did during his term in office - perhaps, much greater, to the point that the ex-RBA chief was forced to declare: "I have allowed ...

MLC Wealth adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... head of corporate superannuation at Mercer has joined MLC Wealth's executive lineup in a newly created role. Darren Stevens has been appointed group executive, platforms at MLC Wealth. Currently Mercer's head of corporate superannuation, Stevens ...

ASIC to crack down on platform fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... breaches, ASIC wanted proof of them having been reported- and if not, why not. Speaking with Financial Standard, Mason Stevens managing director Thomas Bignill explained that Mason Stevens has been part of an ASIC questionnaire regarding managed discretionary ...

$50bn super fund links with software firm

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
A $50 billion industry superannuation fund partnered with a global investment data management software firm. Matrix has been selected by Cbus to provide the giant superannuation fund with investment management software designed to analyse the fund's ...

Former financial adviser jailed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
A former financial adviser who used $5 million in client funds to prop up his own business, pay off his credit cards and gamble has been jailed. James Gibbs was convicted of theft and dishonesty offences committed when he was director of James Gibbs ...

Reforms see super fees in flux

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... Super is a choice fund, so our members have actively chosen to join," Maloney says. Mercer head of corporate super Darren Stevens agreed the reforms have put the sector under pressure, but Mercer's Super Trust wouldn't increase funds as a result. He ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... remembered in history as the man who took Australia's official cash rate from a historic low of 1.5% - set under Glen Stevens one month before he stepped down as RBA head honcho in September 2016 - to a new record low of 1.25% at 1430 hours (AEST) ...