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Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... bad news continued overnight. US initial unemployment claims increased by more than expected to 311K in the week ended 9 August - the highest level since late June this year. Bad news but not all bad - even taking into account the previous week's upward ...

GBST delivers first SuperStream contributions to SMSFs

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
GBST, a SuperStream Gateway provider for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) has delivered its first live SuperStream electronic choice contributions messages destined for SMSFs. This initial SuperStream "cohort" which commenced live contributions on 4 ...

MyState appoints GM from Westpac

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Banking and wealth management group MyState Limited has appointed a new general manager of sales and distribution. Huw Bough will drive MyState Limited's sales and distribution strategy across MyState Limited's retail banking brands, The Rock and MyState ...

BOQ CEO resigns for overseas role

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
BOQ chief executive Stuart Grimshaw will depart the bank at the end of August to pursue a non-banking opportunity outside Australia. Chief operating officer Jon Sutton will take over as acting chief executive from 1 September 2014. The Board is currently ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... on that other big boy - Germany. Data released last night showed that investor confidence fell to a reading of 8.6 in August - less than half market expectations for a 17.0 print and the lowest level since December 2012 and the biggest one month fall ...

Planners unite to create innovation platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
A group of financial planners and financial services entrepreneurs have united to create an online hub to provide solutions to advice businesses. The businesses behind the newly-created AdviceInnovation are Astute Wealth, The Social Adviser, Complete ...

Global Wealth Partners to launch fund on ASX

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Moelis Australia Asset Management (MAAM) has launched an initial public offering of ordinary shares in Global Wealth Partners Fund (GWP) as a first step toward listing the fund on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on 26 September 2014. Sunrise ...

Digital advice to jumpstart $5.6 trillion land grab

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
The next big wave of advice will come from a business model that is gaining traction overseas, but is yet to be fully embraced in Australia. For the early adopters, it could be the foundation of a sustainable and exciting growth for their practices. ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

CommInsure nabs Asteron head of underwriting

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
CommInsure has appointed Asteron Life's executive manager of risk assessment to head the Commonwealth Bank's insurance business retail advice underwriting team. John Kraszula will join the CommInsure retail advice leadership team on August 25, a Commonwealth ...