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Executive appointment round-up

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
LUCRF Super head of investments is leaving and J.P. Morgan Asset Management has appointed a chief executive of Asia Pacific, global investment management. These are among the list of the biggest industry moves this week. UniSuper appoints legal specialists ...

UniSuper appoints legal specialists

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
Further developing its insourcing business model, industry fund UniSuper has appointed two executives to lead the advice and finance divisions of its legal services team. Joining UniSuper as head of risk and legal services for finance, operations, technology ...

Suncorp Life super channel leads profit growth

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
Suncorp has posted the full-year results for its life division, with its superannuation channel seeing the biggest in-force growth: 23.4% on the previous 12 months to $496 million. Suncorp said this was because of "strong growth in sales in both WealthSmart ...

UBS adds three execs to asset management team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Duck was most recently a senior institutional business development manager at Challenger-owned boutique funds management division Fidante Partners. Jennifer Alker takes on the newly-created role of marketing manager and will be responsible for overseeing ...

Industry giants ramp up adviser ethics training

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Financial planners from Australia's top financial institutions will receive ethics and moral psychology training, following major scandals in their advice divisions. AMP, Macquarie Bank, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and BT Financial Group have developed and ...

J.P. Morgan appoints custody country head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... and fund services for Australia and New Zealand. Nadia Schiavon was previously head of J.P. Morgan's treasury services division; she will now report to head of Asia Pacific custody and fund services Colin McKechnie. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Schiavon held ...

Findex life insurance goes commission-free

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Findex's Centric Wealth and Financial Index Wealth Accountants divisions will now only recommend commission-free life insurance policies. As per the recommendations provided by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Financial Planning Association ...

American IRAs not super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... Michael Hallinan, said the decision means any payment from an IRA will have no special tax treatment in Australia under Division 305 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. Hallinan said if an IRA payment was made to an Australian superannuation fund ...

ASIC bans auditor and adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... disqualified an SMSF auditor. Abhinav Gupta provided insurance advice via ACE Insurance's Victorian Combined Insurance division from October 2013 to May 2014. He was not a salaried employee of Combined Insurance but received upfront and volume bonus ...

Peters MacGregor hires head of research

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... of research, shortly after hiring a head of distribution. The fund manager appointed Nathan Bell to lead its research division. Bell has 20 years' of experience in various finance roles and was most recently research director at Intelligent Investor ...