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OneVue to create digital community via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
OneVue acquired an online education platform for both financial advisers and consumers as part of a wider strategy to better connect the advice and funds management industries with investors. OneVue has bought digital distribution and education platform ...

NAB details serious compliance concerns in RC advice submission

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
In the past nine years NAB has identified about 70 financial advisers giving rise to serious compliance concerns across its wealth division. In its submissions to the Royal Commission, NAB disclosed that between 1 January 2009 and 1 January 2018, it ...

Netwealth sells Pathway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
Netwealth has offloaded its Pathway subsidiary to a large financial services technology provider. Pathway Licensee Services was acquired by IRESS for an undisclosed amount on 1 April. The platform provider confirmed the sale in a quarterly update to ...

Chief economist update: RBA certain to raise interest rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Speculate no further, "the next move in the cash rate will be up, not down." Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe cannot be more explicit about monetary policy direction than this when he addressed the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Perhaps it's being drowned by the ongoing Trump/Xi "my tariff is bigger than yours" tit-for-tat, or the Trump/Stormy Daniels alleged dalliance, or the alleged Trump/FBI raid on the offices of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen... but whatever it ...

MySuper growth leads industry

KANIKA SOOD, DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
MySuper products now have more than $635 billion in assets and account for about one-quarter of Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system. Rainmaker's latest MySuper report shows the sector is growing at twice (19%) the pace of overall superannuation ...

Tech selloff builds cash pile at Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
Australian equities managers unloading tech stocks face a tough question - where do they put this pile of cash to work? One international equities manager saw its cash allocations spike to a three-year high as it trimmed investments in tech stocks in ...

New insurance lead at industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
An $89 billion industry superannuation fund is welcoming a new head of insurance. David Evans has joined First State Super, replacing Sarina Aarons in the role. "David has extensive experience within insurance holding both executive and senior positions ...

CBA mulls sale of Indonesian life business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
Commonwealth Bank will potentially offload its Indonesian life insurance business as part of a strategic review. The bank announced it is undertaking a strategic review of PT Commonwealth Life (PTCL) and has engaged external advisers to weigh the possibility ...

Powerwrap adds top industry names

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
A reinvigorated Powerwrap is bolstering its leadership team with the addition of former Netwealth, HUB24 and Morgan Stanley executives. Former Netwealth chief operating and financial officer Bruce MacDougall has joined Powerwrap as its new chief financial ...