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Rest strengthens investment team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
... its investments team. David Duncan has joined the industry fund in the role, having previously been director, financial services consulting at PwC. He brings about 15 years' experience in financial services. He's also spent five years at Macquarie as ...

Online meetings to dominate in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
... increase in-person client meetings. The survey, conducted by US fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions and the Financial Services Institute, reveals that 51% of advisers still conduct formal client meetings either via phone or video conferencing. Should ...

Zenith creates new QLD role

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
... Roebuck will be based in Brisbane and report to national head of sales, John Nicoll. Roebuck has 15 years' financial services experience and was most recently a business development manager for AMP/North, where he was responsible for designing and implementing ...

Fiducian finalises People's Choice Credit Union acquisition

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
Fiducian Financial Services (Fiducian) has today finalised the acquisition of People's Choice Credit Union's financial planning business (PCCU). Fiducian was selected by PCCU as the successful bidder in November to acquire PCCU's financial planning ...

Pinnacle adds to US leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... co-managing director, Americas. He was most recently at abrdn and brings more than 20 years' experience in financial services to the role. He will be based in Pennsylvania and reports directly to executive director and head of institutional and international ...

IFM Investors adds former Schroders chief

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... Super NSW and has held senior positions at Mercer and Towers Perrin. He has also served on the board of the Financial Services Council (FSC) and been an executive committee member and pension committee chair of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association ...

Inquiry criticises gaps in CSLR

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... protection of certain investors, a parliamentary inquiry heard. In discussing the Standing Committee on Economics Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2021 last week, SMSF Association deputy chief executive Peter Burgess pointed ...

Quality of Advice must consider digital: Ignition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... at the sort of scale contemplated," Baker said. "This conclusion has been obvious to many in Australia's financial services industry for some years: the past problem has been a lack of sufficiently sophisticated digital advice solutions for institutions ...

Education reforms are promising: SAFAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... specific degrees. As a recommendation, advisers can satisfy the qualifications by completing courses in finance, financial services, investments, stockbroking, wealth management, business law and so forth. "This is a break from the previous approach ...

Fin365 to launch hybrid advice platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
... now also offer investment and insurance solutions. While the Fin365 solution has traditionally been used by financial services firms, it can equally be applied to deliver simple, scaled advice, the company said. "Consumers who engage directly with the ...