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Iress restructures investment management, advice roles

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2022
Iress has made two senior roles in investment management and financial advice redundant amid a restructure and hired two new executives who came from AMP and a fintech. Managing director for wealth management for Australia and New Zealand Tizzy Vigilante ...

Integrity Life grows distribution team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
Integrity Life has boosted its distribution team by five, moving to a new hybrid retail distribution model. The hires include a head of retail partnerships, joining from MLC Life. The company has introduced a two-tiered partner engagement model - the ...

Expansion strategy boosts Sequoia results

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
The diversification strategy of Sequoia Financial Group's licensee services business has delivered strong results in the interim reporting period. The professional services division, which provides licensed services to financial advisers, as well ...

Sudden departure for CountPlus chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
The chief executive of ASX-listed CountPlus has abruptly stepped down three months after he was reappointed to the post. Matthew Rowe, who also serves as managing director, exits on February 24. Chief financial officer Laurent Toussaint assumes the ...

Australian market praised in latest pension study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
Global pension fund assets have doubled in the last decade, with Australia's pension assets growing by 11.6% in 2021 and seeing it described as "the most successful pensions market". The latest Global Pension Assets Study from Willis Towers Watson's ...

Bell Financial Group in AUSTRAC probe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
Three of Bell Financial Group's subsidiaries are under scrutiny by AUSTRAC, with an audit ordered to assess compliance with financial crime laws. AUSTRAC has ordered that an external auditor be appointed to Bell Potter Securities, Bell Potter Capital ...

What fund selectors want: Natixis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
The latest Natixis Investment Management professional fund selector survey reveals what fund selectors at leading wealth management, private bank, and insurance platforms around the world are looking for. The survey asked 436 fund selectors what they ...

NAB tops bad advice compensation bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... compensations by end of the first quarter of 2022. Commonwealth Bank's amount hit $183.2 million thanks to bad advice from Count Financial (now owned by CountPlus), Financial Wisdom, and its Pathways division of Commonwealth Financial Planning. ANZ's ...

Investors Mutual appoints strategic relationship manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
Investors Mutual (IML) has announced the appointment of Michael Bowen as relationship manager, strategic groups. Bowen joins IML from global manager PineBridge Investments, where he was vice president, wholesale, and private wealth, responsible for ...

Link REIT, Oxford ink $2.3bn office portfolio deal

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
Hong Kong-based Link Asset Management has announced a joint venture with Oxford Properties Group in the Investa Gateway Office (IGO) venture, which consists of a prime office portfolio worth over $2.3 billion. Link will own a 49.9% stake, while Oxford ...