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New FSC board appointment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
Bell Asset Management chief executive Nick Fels has joined the board of the Financial Services Council (FSC). Fels has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services industry. He has been chief executive of Bell Asset Management since 2017 ...

J.P. Morgan joins OpenInvest

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has joined OpenInvest, giving retail investors access to its multi-asset model portfolios. J.P. Morgan Asset Management joins BlackRock and Schroders on the digital marketplace, which enables self-directed retail investors ...

SCA slams five super funds' junk insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... Prime Super and Spirit Super carry the most restrictive insurance policies compared to other funds, according to the consumer advocate organisation. Each of these funds continue to apply junk terms to members once they are unemployed for six months ...

BOQ divests St Andrew's Insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... firms under review. BOQ acquired St. Andrew's in 2010 from the Commonwealth Bank, taking over the core businesses of consumer credit and life insurance.

End of the road for Dollarmites

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Bank has ditched its 90-year-old Dollarmites program after the state governments' banning of school banking schemes. The New South Wales government is the latest to jump on board and ban bank-run marketing schemes in classrooms after ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... struck to be precise - that every other central bank around the planet were hopin' and wishin' and prayin' for consumer price inflation to, at the very least, move higher to within their expressed targets. These targets were generally in ...

Sally Loane resigns as FSC chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
... industry organisations here and overseas, regulators, politicians, government bodies, and important stakeholders like consumer bodies, mental health leaders and the medical community." She thanked current FSC chair David Bryant, former chairs Geoff Lloyd ...

Pinnacle backs investment platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
Pinnacle Investment Management has made a $3 million cornerstone investment in OpenInvest. Melbourne-based fintech OpenInvest said it will use the funding to increase staff numbers to continue the roll out of its investment administration technology ...

Advisers closer to professionalisation: FASEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority said the advice industry is closer to reaching the professional status it is striving to achieve. This is based on new figures FASEA has released to show that advisers are taking educational qualifications ...

Six Park hires operations chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
Six Park hired a new operations chief in September who finished up at Westpac after a decade with the bank. Tuula Keto is the robo-adviser's chief operating officer. She most recently worked in the bank's group and change integration unit and ...