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ASIC bans convicted fraud "mastermind"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
ASIC has banned the Australian "mastermind" of the UK's biggest ever boiler room scheme from practising financial services. From 2003 to 2007, Jeffrey Revell-Reade made A£70 million selling equities in non-existent companies via brokers in Madrid to ...

Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... to find returns uncorrelated to other asset classes," AQR Capital Management head of institutional business in Australasia Jeff Dunn said. "We are seeing a definite turn, an increasing appetite for transparency." The US-based firm went from fourth to ...

Local Government Super names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... committee as well as a member of the investment committee. LGS also recently announced the appointment of Katherine O'Regan and Jeff Morris as directors on the board. O'Regan and Morris replace existing directors Leo Kelly and Keith Rhoades. Kelly retires ...

AMP launches goals-based investment site

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... well as help advisers who are new to goals-based investing implement it in their practices." Ipac chief investment officer Jeff Rogers will lead the development of the firm's new goals-based offerings. "Success of a goals-based strategy is not about ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
"Word has finished searching the selection. The search item was not found. Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" Yes please, sir. Nah, it still couldn't find "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I ...

IRESS launches cloud-based trading platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
IRESS has launched SmartHub, a cloud-based financial transaction messaging platform. SmartHub is designed to offer a low-latency, globally-implemented online service which reduces trade messaging back-office compatibility burdens. It supports "multiple" ...

Industry insurance report to focus on advice remuneration model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... Summerhayes, NAB Wealth group executive and MLC chief executive Andrew Hagger, AFA chief executive Brad Fox, AFA NSW state director Jeff Thurecht and Centrepoint Alliance chief executive John de Zwart.

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... Chris Page - Group Managing Director at Rainmaker Group, Greg Bright - Managing Director at Binalong Advisory Services, A Jeff Bresnahan - Chairman at SuperRatings and David Coogan - Partner at PwC. Supporting the event were Commonwealth Bank (primary ...

New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
A newly launched simulation and forecasting engine developed by Vanguard has tipped global equities as the most likely asset class to achieve a 6% to 9% annualised return over the next decade. The range is roughly the same level of return targeted by ...

Advisers confronted with harsh reality of whistleblowing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... whistleblower's life, but it is worth it because it makes a difference, former Commonwealth Bank adviser and whistleblower Jeff Morris told advisers at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Congress. "There's a moment when you suddenly realise it's ...