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MLC enhances managed accounts leadership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
MLC Asset Management has made two appointments to its managed accounts team, hiring from Xplore Wealth and Mercer. Neil Gellett has been named head of managed accounts and joins from Xplore Wealth where he was head of product. Prior to this, he was ...

HESTA appoints board director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... career in the health sector, including as the chief executive of sportsmed hospital and orthopaedics. He was a chartered accountant and worked with KPMG for over 10 years in UK and Australia. Daniel Sims was the chief executive of Ramsay Health Care's ...

Former AMP adviser in enforceable undertaking

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
The glamorous financial adviser wife of an ex-NRL player has been ordered to pay ASIC's legal costs and comply with its enforceable undertaking. Jenan Thorne - wife of former Canterbury Bulldogs player Robin Thorne - was prevented from providing financial ...

Perpetual promotes on Aussie equities team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... Sean Roger as the deputy portfolio manager on the fund. Roger has spent six years at Perpetual, joining as a graduate accountant in 2013, moving to equities dealer in 2013 and an analyst in 2016. He currently covers stocks in gaming and agriculture sectors. ...

Adviser levy to increase by 160%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
ASIC has hit financial advisers with the news that levies will increase by the equivalent of 160% over two years, with industry bodies outraged. The total cost levied by ASIC is now $1500 per retail advice licence, plus an additional $2426 per authorised ...

Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
A former BT Life Insurance head of product and sales has taken on the role, following the resignation of Andrew Tobin last year. Rachel Grimes spent over 20 years at Westpac in several senior finance roles including director of mergers and acquisitions ...

Channel Capital expands overseas

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... firm said. Cook, who is an Australian, has been based in the Cayman Islands since 2005. He is a qualified chartered accountant and has worked with Citco Fund Services in Cayman Islands. "We are thrilled to be partnering with Mark in the Cayman Islands" ...

ASIC zeroes in on bad SMSF advice, conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
The corporate regulator continues to hunt down perpetrators that give bad advice to self-managed super funds, sounding a warning that it is flexing its new powers in superannuation. ASIC commissioner Danielle Press told the recent SMSF Association's ...

SG rise a bad idea: Chartered Accountants

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
According to Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the superannuation guarantee should not rise from 9.5% to 12%. "Since the last election, there has been a global pandemic, the first Australian recession in 29 years, our highest unemployment ...

Fund manager expands, hires two executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... was recently an associate director at Westpac's institutional banking division for over three years. A qualified accountant, Titley spent nearly a decade working across a range of accounting disciplines, namely with consulting firms Ernst & Young ...