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Future Fund to manage new drought fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... $5 billion fund for drought-related spending that will be managed by the Future Fund Board of Guardians. Minister for Finance and the Public Service Mathias Cormann said the fund will kick off with $3.9 billion and grow to $5 billion over the next decade. ...

WAM names prospective Blue Sky LIC team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... Geoff Wilson said. WAM will take over the deployment of the multi-manager mandate, shareholder engagement, marketing, finance and administration services for the company. In a letter, Wilson welcomed the new appointments announced at BAF earlier this ...

Investment manager chair retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... added two board members: Alison Larsson, a former chief risk officer at ANZ; and Grant Dempsey, a current senior adviser, finance at ANZ and a former head of investment banking at JPMorgan. It is understood Industry Fund Services (IFS) chief executive ...

FS Power50 names most influential advisers in 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... "There's Eleanor Dartnall who helped push through the downsizer contribution reforms this year, Ben Nash who published a finance book for millennials and Charles Badenach who wrote a guide to help migrants understand the financial system better." ...

Should banks fund customer litigation?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... management had become an unnecessary failure for Australia's big banks, while lamenting the bank's inability to properly finance and integrate its now divested wealth arm - MLC - into its existing operations.

Advice group rebuilds following regulatory headwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... offering "in due course." The diversified wealth management group will progress its other fintech, MyMoney247 - a personal finance management platform operated by MoneyBrilliant. "During this period of restructuring and realignment we have had to focus ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... balanced scorecard - has been described as flawed in the latest research from Macquarie University's Department of Applied Finance. It says this common industry remuneration metric is not as robust as first thought. It found the balanced scorecard used ...

Increase adviser standards sector-wide: FSU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... imposed on financial advisers should be rolled out across the entire financial services sector. That is the view of the Finance Sector Union which said a process of professionalisation should extend to other occupations within the sector, including lending ...

Misconduct matters, but stability key for Frydenberg

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... considerations to bear when implementing the Royal Commission's final recommendations. Speaking at the Australian Finance Industry Association conference in Sydney this week, Frydenberg told delegates the Government had four focus areas when implementing ...

FICAP launches 2019 program, names new charity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
The Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) is gearing up for its "Who Wants to be a Rockstar?" fundraiser, with the new charity announced this month. Last Thursday, the FICAP committee and the charity beneficiaries from this year's fundraising ...