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Advice firm enters insurance market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
A Melbourne financial advice firm launched its own personal risk insurance offering. New and existing clients of Hewison Private Wealth can now obtain life, TPD, income protection and trauma insurance, free from commissions. Clients that take out policies ...

New degrees introduced to minimise adviser exodus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... industry's demands. The same courses will also be available on-campus to students at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Victoria. The new degrees introduced are: - Bachelor of Business (Finance) - Bachelor of Business (Accounting and Finance) ...

UBS restructures global wealth arms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... time, Geoff Stansen, Gary MacKenzie, Andrew Lees, Leigh Birtles and Don Chandler were among the of senior advisers from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane who, together with senior management, have led the push for the creation of a new partnership firm. ...

Advice group solidifies Gen-Y positioning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... targeted at advisers looking to excel in advising Gen-Y clients as well as scaling their own business. Taking place in Melbourne and led by Kelly, the Coaching Academy consists of two workshops with intakes planned for February, July and November. "When ...

Royal Commission begins in February

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... dispute to take, or not take, any particular action. The venue for the first hearing is Level 6, 11 Exhibition Street, Melbourne and will commence at 10am. The Royal Commission was established by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove on 14 December 2017 ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... that will cause that to occur," he says. The comments come ahead of the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Melbourne and Sydney next month. Eslake says markets have been quite blase in not attaching any great importance to geopolitical or strategic ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... stronger confidence among job-seekers that they'll be successful in finding jobs - one that's consistent with the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer confidence survey showing the unemployment expectations index falling from 130.8 in November to 127.6 ...

Former advice dealer group chief executive surfaces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Solutions chief executive Marcelo Fernandez joined Chase Corporate Advisory this week, focused on growing the firm's Melbourne office alongside advisory board chair, former Clayton Utz chief executive David Fagan. Fernandez brings more than 25 years' ...

HLB Mann Judd revises AFSL

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... an agreement with ASIC. The corporate regulator has accepted a voluntary variation of the AFSL held by HLB Mann Judd Melbourne's corporate finance division, whereby it is prohibited from preparing or providing independent expert reports (IERs), opinions ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... since late 2013 and the most positive start to a calendar year since 2010." This is the first paragraph of the Westpac-Melbourne Institute report on Australian consumer sentiment that showed the index rising for the third straight month to 105.1 in January ...