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New chief executive at Industry Fund Services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
Cath Bowtell has handed over the reins after almost six years as chief executive of Industry Fund Services. Bowtell has stepped down as chief executive, the position she's held since December 2016, and taken over as chair of the Industry Fund Services ...

Bendigo Bank agrees to buy ANZ margin lending book

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has inked a deal to buy the ANZ investment lending portfolio, allowing it to further grow its margin lending business, Leveraged Equities. The portfolio is valued at approximately $715 million and has 11,900 customer facilities. ...

Advisers optimistic for the future: Natixis IM

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
... market with the emergence of advice practices which focus on the needs of specific professions such as the medical profession and also those who focus on servicing women," Watson said. "Global financial professionals also recognize and are now tailoring ...

AMP completes Resolution Life divestment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
AMP has completed the divestment of its remaining equity interest (19.3%) in Resolution Life Australasia to Resolution Life Group. The initial sale agreement, announced on 3 November 2021, was subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions precedent ...

Former adviser charged over faked books

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2022
A former financial adviser has been charged with seven counts of alleged falsification of company books following an ASIC investigation. ASIC alleged that between February 2010 and December 2018, Tai Thanh Nguyen of Interprac Financial Planning falsified ...

AMP wants life insurance caps raised, fees lowered

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
AMP has called for the federal government to review life insurance model fees and caps placed on financial advisers, warning the current climate will lead to an underinsured population. The wealth manager picked at old wounds in its submission to the ...

AMP Capital fund manager resigns

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
Kit Georgeos has announced her departure from the AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund, effective later this year. Georgeos joined AMP in 2019 as a fund manager for the unlisted $8 billion wholesale office fund, which owns 12 prime office towers in Sydney ...

Insurers to get new advocacy body

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
Australia's life insurance industry will soon have a new peak body, the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI). Expected to launch later this year, CALI is the brainchild of a collective of life insurers who believe it is now time for the sector ...

Sue Brake to leave Future Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
Future Fund chief investment officer Sue Brake is leaving the sovereign wealth fund for family reasons. Brake has been chief investment officer of Future Fund since December 2020 but has acted in the role since July 2020. Prior to that she was deputy ...

Advice requirements confusing, complex: JAWG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... regulatory environment should recognise the professionalism of financial advisers and enhance the reputation of the profession as a whole. "Regulatory certainty needs to be introduced and duplication removed to provide for a regulatory environment that ...