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Adviser scammed family, friends

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
A New York investment adviser named Ruless Pierre allegedly operated a Ponzi scheme that unlawfully obtained more than $2 million from investors who were told they'd see returns of 20% every two months. Part of the scheme, known as the Amongst Friends ...

What finance professionals are really paid

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
A new salary benchmarking report for 2020 from Michael Page has revealed what various finance professionals in Australia can expect to be paid, including distribution leads and investment directors. According to the report, legal, risk and compliance ...

Adviser moves show industry upheaval

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... picked up three, and Synchron picked up two as did Financial Services Partners. One went to Australian Unity Personal Finance, one to Industry Fund Services and one to VicSuper. Another AFSL, Smart Solutions, showed 18 advisers registered in July but ...

New FPA board members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... FPA, having joined in 2008 and becoming a CFP professional in 2010. He is the chief executive and founder of Health & Finance Integrated and is a disability and human rights advocate. Henderson has been director and certified financial planner at SWA ...

Trustee firm launches admin platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... accounting service for capital managers. The new business is led by general manager Priya Sharma who was most recently finance manager within Blue Sky Water Partners' real assets division. All services to be offered by MSC Abacus will be white-labelled ...

China backs blockchain, Bitcoin soars

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... circulating traditional physical currencies. Xi said the technology could be applied to make different fields, including finance, infrastructure management and public services. Chinese tech firm, Xunlei, which offers blockchain-based services, rose 107% ...

AustralianSuper appoints group executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... commission. He started with the fund in 2007 when he was appointed its general manager of business development when he was the Finance Sector Union's national secretary. Peter Curtis has been appointed group executive, finance and operations. "The ...

Cbus veteran moves to APRA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... previously was in the role of public policy advisor. Barrett has held roles at ESSSuper, the Department of Treasury and Finance Victoria and APRA previously.

Rainmaker Group announces acquisition of Industry Moves

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... on the people, organisations, and new products relevant to Australia's diverse institutional, wholesale and retail finance industry. "We are proud of the product we've created, however it was time for us to move on to new challenges," said Wilkes. ...

IFM pushes into large scale private equity

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... private equity investments with the appointment of Jeremy Larkin to head the initiative. Larkin spent 25 years in corporate finance at Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan, also working as an adviser to a number of ASX 200 companies including the likes of BlueScope ...