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Grant Samuel adds retail distribution role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
Grant Samuel Funds Management recruited a former Fidante Partners business development manager for a newly created role. Stephen Higgins will take on the new role of key account manager in GSFM's NSW retail sales team, focusing on its IFA, private bank ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
Good, bad or ugly, there were events a-plenty last week for speculators and investors to digest for guidance on what lies ahead. There's the lingering North Korean nuclear threat - although this has barely made it to headlines over the past week; there's ...

QIC adopts regtech solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
QIC integrated its own data management with that of a managed data services and regtech solution provider as part of a strategy to enhance its operations. The investment fund for the Queensland state government implemented a managed data service solution ...

Elders boosts Victorian presence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... Following the news that IOOF will acquire ANZ Wealth's aligned advice dealer groups - including Elders - as part of a broader sale agreement, Elders general manager Tony Beaven announced the group has now welcomed Directional Financial Planning from ...

TAL maintains life insurance market lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... Group and MLC Life Insurance each have equal footing, with 12% market share or $1.9 billion. The report, which analyses the sale and inflows of life insurance risk premiums, said the life insurance industry continued to grow albeit now at a much more ...

Franklin Templeton appoints new MD

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
Franklin Templeton Investments Australia has named its new managing director, replacing Maria Wilton. Matthew Harrison was previously general manager distribution at Colonial First State, a role Peter Chun has now assumed in his stead. Before that ...

Colonial First State names new distribution head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
Colonial First State has appointed a new general manager of distribution. Peter Chun has held multiple roles at CFS since joining in 2002, initially as head of super and investments. In between he served as director, product and marketing for Credit ...

BlackRock boosts Australian distribution footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
BlackRock has made three senior hires to strengthen its client business team in Australia. Scarlett Dorney will join the Sydney office as a director of client business at the end of October, responsible for leading the multi-manager and institutional ...

MetLife pushes for the retail market with new hire

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
MetLife will launch its retail life insurance offer to advisers and brokers next year and has appointed a head of retail sales from AMP to facilitate this process. Matt Lippiatt joins MetLife from AMP, where he was national account manager. He has held ...

Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
Along with the increasing sun shiny days that spring brings to our part of the globe come the green sprouts of optimism among us, Australians all. For the first time in 11 months, there are more optimists than pessimists in this land girth by sea. This ...