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QIC backs analytics platform with $2m investment

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
QIC Ventures has pledged $2 million in seed round funding to Accoil Analytics, a product engagement analytics platform for B2B companies. Accoil provides services to collect and organise customer behaviours to help companies better understand their ...

TAL creates consumer and growth unit

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
TAL Australia has appointed a general manager to lead its newly created consumer and growth team. As head of this new division, Lexie Denby will oversee TAL's direct and advised customer growth initiatives while ensuring its products and services ...

ART beefs up analytics team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
Australian Retirement Trust has recruited two specialists to help lead its strategic, digital, and cultural transformation. First up, Sarah Dunn has been appointed general manager of transformation. She joins from Victorian Funds Management Corporation ...

VFMC welcomes two key execs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has made two new senior appointments - a chief people officer and a head of client services. The $92 billion quasi-sovereign wealth fund has named Karen Perkins the permanent head of client services. Perkins was ...

Super funds should focus on 'simple' advice: Jones

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said the purpose of Tranche 2 of Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO)- which was previewed earlier this week - is to allow super funds to provide basic financial advice, not to see a repeat of issues raised during ...

Sally Auld to take on chief economist role at NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
Alan Oster will retire from NAB as chief economist after 32 years in the role, with Sally Auld set to replace him. Oster, who will finish at NAB at the end of March 2025, joined NAB in 1992 and built a respected economics function, the bank said. NAB ...

The sensitive conversations advisers shy away from

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
Financial advisers must build the confidence to talk to clients about sensitive topics such as divorce, financial coercion, and binding financial agreements (BFAs) to help them navigate difficult periods and make a real difference in their lives. According ...

Firms treat CSLR as 'insurance policy': FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
As the number of AFSL cancellations pile up due to the non-payment of Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) determinations, far too many financial services firms are taking advantage of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR), treating ...

InvestSense marks 10th birthday

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
One of Australia's first firms to specialise in managed accounts celebrated its 10th anniversary this month. InvestSense was established in 2014 and has grown significantly over the past decade. In the past three months, InvestSense has grown its ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
Professional reputations could be harmed if the government does not distinctly delineate between its proposed new class of advisers (NCAs) and financial advisers, the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) warns in anticipation of the looming ...