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ETF issuer hires Olympian

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
An ETF issuer has hired a former Olympian as it expands its team. ETF Securities is welcoming Larry Achike to its business development team. The British athlete finished fifth in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and seventh in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He ...

MetLife expands retail arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
MetLife Australia continues to bolsters its retail division with four key appointments. Marcus Chan joins MetLife as sales manager for New South Wales. He came from BT Financial Group where he worked as a business development manager. Also from BTFG ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Latest research from Macquarie University uncovers flaws in the use of balanced scorecards to determine remuneration. It comes as Australia's biggest bank bosses face the Royal Commission. According to researchers from the university's Applied ...

Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Thirteen months on from securing its first boutique partners, the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management is ready to scale up. But will Brexit get in the way? Speaking to Financial Standard in London recently, BennBridge chief operating officer Greg ...

Lonsec appoints marketing director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
Lonsec appointed a former Clime Asset Management executive to lead its marketing efforts. Rob Hardy links with Lonsec as the firm's new executive director of sales and marketing - a new role, which is set to see Hardy also assume responsibility for ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
More investors are turning to fixed income ETFs as a way to finetune their bond portfolios. Karren Vergara finds out what is driving the demand and why this new wave of defensive ETFs is here to stay. Recalling the sharp market correction that stung ...

IOOF manager joins HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
IOOF's national manager for advice relationships has taken up a regional role at HUB24, as the incumbent moves to a newly-created national role. HUB24's outgoing NSW state manager Andrew Fraser is moving into the newly-created role of national ...

Global asset managers sign responsible firearms framework

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... retailers should educate and train their employees to better recognise and effectively monitor irregularities at the point of sale, to record all firearm sales, to audit firearms inventory on a regular basis, and to proactively assist law enforcement. ...

Vamos joins embattled insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... six months to 31 December it will record an EBITDA loss of up to $8 million. It has also advised that it will consider the sale of its non-core financial advice subsidiary, Spectrum Wealth Advisers.

FSC revamps life insurer code

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
The Financial Services Council has released a new draft life insurance code of practice that makes 30 changes to the code in place since 2017. The second iteration of the code aims to lift the standards in product design, sales, underwriting, customer ...