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Suncorp to drop aligned advice businesses

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Suncorp Life has announced it will transition out of managing Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning. The process will take place over the next six months, and the decision was made, according to the company's statement, "in order to simplify ...

MLC Direct appoints general manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
MLC has appointed a new managing director of its Direct business. Vanessa Rowe has held management roles with MLC since 2004, starting as senior risk manager, risk and governance. She became head of MLC's advice network in 2012, and will now manage ...

CommInsure appoints life head from Macquarie

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
CommInsure has appointed a new head of life product and strategy. Sally Phillips will leave Macquarie Life, where she is divisional director and head of underwriting, claims and insurance proposition, to take on the role. Prior to Macquarie, she was ...

Bennelong appoints distribution director from CFS

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed a new director distribution - national accounts. Jonas Daly joins Bennelong from Colonial First State where he held alliance fund management roles and oversaw distribution of FirstChoice multi-manager products. ...

AIA hybrid program signs 1,000 advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Over 1,000 advisers have signed on to AIA Australia's transition to hybrid program. The program is designed to help advisers accommodate the new Life Insurance Framework, recently formalised by the Government. It facilitates a transition from relying ...

Shaw and Partners appoints another Macquarie vet

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Shaw and Partners has appointed a new institutional equities specialist. Darin Lester joins Shaw and Partners from BTIG, where he held a senior institutional equity sales position. Prior to that, he was a division director for alternative strategies ...

OneVue sees growth in RE services

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... the NWQ Fiduciary Fund, the YBR Protected Equities Fund and the Tyche Growth Fund. OneVue's head of investment management Alex Wise said more in the international equities and alternative sectors are expected to transition before Christmas and there ...

PROFILE: NAB Financial Planning general manager Paul Fog

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
It says something about the sweeping remit of financial advice that Paul Fog credits both commercial property law and playing water polo for Australia as steering him towards the profession. From his perspective, though, both are equally important. ...

Decimal appoints new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
Robo-advice provider Decimal Software has appointed a new chief executive. Nic Pollock joins Decimal having held senior positions at Oracle, Gemcom, Mincom and Snowden. He will commence his position on November 23. In a statement the Decimal board said ...

Madison appoints national practice development manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
Non-aligned adviser group Madison Financial Group has appointed a new national practice development manager. Jamie Johns joins Madison from Capstone Financial Planning, where she was national business manager. She has also held positions at Bendigo ...