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Frontier Advisors chief executive resigns

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... competition within the consulting sector. He was given the job of transforming the business from what was a successful advisory practice, with a stable of industry superannuation fund clients, into a more dynamic and sophisticated financial services ...

Global $11bn manager acquires US firm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
A global manager with over $11 billion in assets under advisory and management, which operates in Australia via BNP Paribas Asset Management, has acquired a US firm for US$52.5 million. Impax Asset Management entered into an agreement to acquire 100% ...

Avenir appoints investment associate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... specialising in leveraged loans and high yield bonds. Prior to that, she worked in PwC's Spanish corporate finance and debt advisory team. Avenir chief investment officer Adrian Warner said: "Having Patricia working with the team to generate investment ...

BNP Paribas AM acquires fintech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
BNP Paribas Asset Management is adding digital advisory services to enhance the digitalisation of its distributors, buying a majority stake in a Belgian fintech. Gambit Financial Solutions is now the preferred partner for all current and future robo-advisory ...

Super funds and weapons of mass destruction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... mass destruction" but an increasing number of super funds are using them as a cost-saving measure. Milliman head of fund advisory services Michael Armitage told delegates at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference ...

AZ NGA acquires Wealthmed Australia

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
AZ Next Generation Advisory is continuing its acquisition spree with the purchase of a highly targeted and integrated financial planning business specialising in wealth management for doctors and other medical specialists. The firm signed a binding ...

Fitzpatricks Group acquires financial advice firm

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... Fitzpatricks managing director John McMurdo to be the result of the newly secured capital, and in line with the national advisory and wealth management firm's mission towards expansion. McMurdo added that Fitzpatricks is delighted that a strong, culturally-aligned ...

Industry fund welcomes new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... this he was chief executive at IAG New Zealand for five years. Smith currently serves on the board of Equip Corporate Advisory, a management consulting firm he co-founded; and has been chair of the Children's Cancer Institute for more than six years. ...

CBA class action moves forward

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... years; this included chief executive of the institutional bank, chief risk officer, group treasurer and chair of the Asia Advisory Board. CBA chair Catherine Livingstone said Whitfield's broad risk management and public sector experience, as well as ...

Infocus buys influential advice business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... in client service and access to a holistic client service offering covering financial advice, mortgages and property advisory," Bristow said. "Announcer helps deliver on our vision of empowering every day Australians to live their best life through convenient ...