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Performance analyst jobs hold steady in COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Performance analysts and more broadly, investment data professionals have been in strong demand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaizen Recruitment. The role -- with responsibilities including calculating, attributing and benchmarking ...

Practice valuations avoid COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Financial advisers looking to sell their business in the midst of COVID-19 would be wise not to accept discounted offers, with experts saying the pandemic has barely touched the market. Speaking with Financial Standard, Radar Results founder John Birt ...

Adviser guilty of misuse of client money

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Former financial adviser Anthony Dick pleaded guilty to 11 counts of dishonestly using his clients' money for his own personal use. Dick was charged in February this year after an ASIC investigation revealed he had accessed and transferred around ...

Clime courts Madison Financial Group

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Sydney's Clime Investment Management has emerged as a bidder for Madison Financial Group, which is currently in the process of being sold by OneVue. Madison, which is home to about 100 advisers, was previously owned by Sargon Capital but fell into ...

Suncorp wealth head departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Suncorp is again searching for a new banking and wealth chief executive, after the incumbent lasted just three months. Lee Hatton will leave the Queensland bank at the end of the month, bringing her tenure as chief executive of Suncorp's banking and ...

A challenge in a Class of its own

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
SMSF platform Class found itself in a fairly unique predicament recently after acquiring a business in another state only for the borders to be closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Class, which is based in Sydney, purchased NowInfinity, based ...

AFSL pleads guilty to mishandling client money

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
In the first case of its kind in Australia, an AFSL is facing criminal prosecution for mishandling client monies, and has pleaded guilty. Pershing Securities Australia Pty Ltd (PSAL) pleaded guilty at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney to mishandling ...

Former licensee head in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
The former managing director of a now-defunct dealer group has taken on a new leadership role at MLC. MLC has confirmed the appointment of Mark Fisher as general manager of Godfrey Pembroke and MLC Connect. Fisher wrapped up as general manager of Securitor ...

Adviser salaries in 2020 revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
Despite current uncertainty, latest insights show a senior financial adviser with more than 10 years' experience can still expect to take home up to $160,000 per year. Riva Recruitment's Financial Adviser Salary Guide 2020 shows a senior adviser in ...

Pendal appoints new head of HNW distribution

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
A Sydney equities' boutique's chief executive has jumped to Pendal Group to work as its head of high net worth distribution. Lee Hopperton was most recently the chief executive and distribution head of value manager Auscap Asset Management in ...