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Reskilling: A worthy purpose for super?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
A leading academic is calling for early access to superannuation for the purposes of education and retraining, especially as the risk of losing one's job to automation grows. Speaking at the opening session of the SMSF Association's 2018 National Conference ...

SEC cracks down on fee transparency

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it will crackdown on financial product providers' fee disclosures the year ahead in a bid to protect mum and dad investors. The SEC made it clear that one of its main priorities this year is ...

CareSuper appoints investment manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Industry super fund CareSuper has appointed a new investment manager. Frank Russo joins the $13 billion super fund from SILC Group, a boutique strategic adviser and investment solutions provider specialising in wholesale private, commercial and institutional ...

Former QIC director joins FIIG

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... announced Simon Michell, who joined in 2007 as a senior dealer, left after 10 years of service. Michell rose to become an associate director, followed by director of fixed income sales, and a national manager of FIIG adviser services.

Perennial appoints institutional sales lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Perennial Value Management and Daintree Capital are welcoming a new head of institutional sales. Dan Birch will lead the fund manager's institutional sales division, responsible for marketing and selling Perennial's equity and risk management product ...

Investec unveils succession plan

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... non-executive directors. Burger will retire on 31 March 2019 and become a non-executive director on certain subsidiary and associate boards. The board thanked the trio "for their exemplary service, dedication and commitment to the group since the 1980s" ...

Advisers can fill aged care demand gap: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
The growing demand for aged care planning will shift financial advisers' service offering and provide a new source of revenue in the medium-term, a joint study by Aged Care Steps and Swiss Re reveals. The research, which explored the challenges and ...

Spring FG wealth GM departs in management restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
The group general manager of Spring Financial Group's wealth operations will depart, along with the group's chief financial officer, following a management restructure. In Spring's half-year results announcement, which revealed an expected operating ...

Changing nature of advice to benefit institutions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
The era of new business models and increasing education debt will see new financial planners begin their careers in salaried positions and place existing advisers' exit strategies at risk. That is the view of Connect Financial Service Brokers chief ...

Cultural bias heavily discounts female artwork

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... artists across all sales. Co-author of the paper, Is Gender in the Eye of the Beholder?, University of Technology Sydney associate professor Marco Navone said after looking at sales of artworks by 67,000 artists and even taking away sales of more than ...