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First State Super appoints head of digital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... MBF, Woolworths and the Commonwealth Bank. First State Super has also recently welcomed Luke Jamieson to lead its service centre. He joins from Cbus, having also worked with Mercer and UniSuper. Jamieson was the recipient of the Victorian Contact Centre ...

Centrepoint Alliance names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
The chief executive of an IOOF-aligned dealer group will take over leadership of Centrepoint Alliance in 2018. Shadforth Financial Group chief executive Angus Benbow has been named as Centrepoint's new chief executive, commencing April 2018. Benbow ...

HNWI financial advice demand falls: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... allocated to growth investments. Investment Trends senior analyst King Loong Choi said HNW investors' unmet advice needs centre around investment strategy and retirement. "HNWIs themselves understand that a single adviser may not necessarily possess ...

HESTA wins big at AIST awards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... campaign reuniting members with lost super, as well as the award for Best Internal Project for the Omni Channel Contact Centre project that introduced a new telephony platform enabling both voice and web chat contact with members. Hostplus also won two ...

SMEs lack cybersecurity resilience: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... to cyber resilience by all organisations operating in the Australian economy", Armour said. The Australia Cyber Security Centre identified 47,000 cyber incidents affecting individuals and businesses in the past 12 months, representing a 15% increase ...

Former CBA-aligned adviser banned for three years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
An adviser formerly working under CBA-owned licensee Financial Wisdom has been banned for three years by ASIC. ASIC said the decision came about because Julie Hamilton failed to act in her clients' best interests; the regulator investigated her activity ...

APRA delivers poor super fund ultimatum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... as net cash flows." The ASFA Conference opened today to more than 2000 delegates at the Sydney International Convention Centre. Financial Standard will have ongoing coverage from the conference.

Centrepoint adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
A financial adviser licensed through Centrepoint Alliance's Professional Investment Services has been banned by ASIC for three years for incompetence. Ramana Rao of Metaplanners in South Australia was banned from providing financial services after it ...

SuperConcepts launches admin tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... any time from the one place." Research SuperConcepts recently released with the University of Adelaide's International Centre for Financial Services revealed that SMSFs with more members tend to shun riskier equity markets and invest more heavily in ...

Sydney licensee caught out on conflicts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... expert to assess and evaluate the adequacy of the above measures, as well as make a donation of $80,000 to the The Ethics Centre.