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Fiducian welcomes two practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2024
... in Victoria's Burwood, joins the ASX-listed firm. Gill also teaches the capstone financial planning unit at Deakin University. Paul Blackadder, the principal of Blackadder Finance, an advice practice that also offers loans and insurance broking services. ...

Pollaers to chair AFCA for another three years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... to individual consumers and small business owners. In addition to AFCA, Pollaers serves as chancellor of Swinburne University and is a non-executive director of AGL and GUD Holdings, and chair of the Advisory Board of Ending Loneliness Together. During ...

Super Members Council appoints inaugural chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... Australia, and is currently chair of UNICEF Australia, Enero Group and the Port of Townsville - and chancellor of Queensland University of Technology. She is also a director of National Australia Bank, Infrastructure Victoria and the Museum of Contemporary ...

Wollongong adviser wins Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... February 2017 and appointed a financial adviser in October of 2019. He holds a Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Wollongong and a Diploma of Financial Planning. "I am overjoyed to be named the recipient of the Gwen Fletcher award ...

CalSTRS appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... portfolio companies, partners and the industry," he said. Before joining CalSTRS, Chan was senior managing director of the University of California, Office of the chief investment officer of the Regents, where he oversaw the US$55 billion global equities ...

Calls for a simplified path to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... candidates without lowering standards. It's crucial that the qualification requirements maintain the importance of a university degree and the proposals support that, she said. "The current qualification framework works really well for a number of participants. ...

The rising role and risks of generative AI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... investment in OpenAI, the public nevertheless remains sceptical about AI's benefits. A survey by KPMG Australia and the University of Queensland, involving 17,000 people across 17 countries, found that Australians are among the most cautious regarding ...

Budget 2024: Cost of living relief takes centre stage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... Stronger Medicare in every community. More homes in every state and territory. More opportunities in every TAFE and University. A dignified retirement for older Australians." Social security deeming rates for financial investments will remain at current ...

Former super fund adviser receives permanent ban

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... Financial Adviser Register, Dzawo held a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Finance and Financial Planning) from Deakin University and held no industry association memberships.

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... was dismissed for publicly opposing the Vietnam War but soon became head of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University, part of the State University of New York system. Simons left academia to start Monometrics in 1978, later renamed Renaissance ...