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PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie joined Lonsec in early 2000, when it employed three analysts and provided research only to the Lonsec dealer group. For the last 14 years, Gillespie has seen Lonsec grow and become one of ...

IOSCO updates FinLit framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... IOSCO's 115 member countries account for 95% of global securities markets. "Investor education and financial literacy are a joint responsibility for investors, industry and regulators," said Howard I Wetston QC, chair of the Ontario Securities Commission ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... towards in-housing might be putting pressure on asset consultants to change strategy and profile Lonsec Fiscal Holding's joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading Financial Standard iPadA(C) app free ...

Link acquires proxy solicitation firm

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... a very significant strategic step which will allow us with AST, to roll out a seamless global proxy solution to our many joint cross-border clients. In due course, we will be extending the D.F. King franchise into Asia and Australasia to sit alongside ...

Financial Wisdom and Count also subject to higher standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... in Financial Planning. It will also be valid to hold a degree in any field plus an accounting designation with one of the joint accounting bodies. "Applying these educational standards across the CBA Wealth Management Advice business is an important ...

FPA appoints new CRC Chair, rolls out education standards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Conduct Review Commission (CRC) and rolled out a proposed Education and Professional Standards Framework to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Inquiry. The FPA has appointed Dr June Smith as Chair of its CRC, replacing Professor Dimity Kingsford ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... take it very seriously. There is a need for advisers to face up to this." As a response to the report the AFA has set up a joint life insurance working group with the Financial Services Council (FSC) which will deliver an interim report in December and ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... years ago (and which we've seemed to have just woken up to now) monetary policy "is not a panacea". Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress on 4 October 2011, then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that, "Monetary policy can ...

One third of risk advisers non-compliant, ASIC says

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Financial advisers specialising in life insurance must lift the quality of advice and ensure that the interests of their clients are given priority, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has said. ASIC reviewed more than 200 advice ...

Two-fifths forced into retirement before financially ready

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... their top two influencers. The findings were based on an online survey of more than 1,500 Australians who were the sole or joint household finance decision makers, aged 50-80 years, and not receiving a full aged pension. It was conducted for Mercer in ...