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IOOF trims operations

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... Zealand business comes hot-on-the-heels of a restructure to the firm's leadership team, which saw it promote three general managers to the c-suite after it finally acquired ANZ's Pensions and Investments business in February. At the time, Mota ...

Industry fund continues investment team expansion

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... Victorian Funds Management Corporation portfolio manager to oversee strategic tilting. HESTA has appointed Luke Galloway as general manager of strategic tilting at the $50 billion industry fund, as it continues to evolve its investment capabilities. ...

Vale Ted Evans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
Tributes are flowing for former Westpac chair and Treasury secretary Ted Evans, who passed away over the weekend. Evans, who had been battling cancer, joined the Australian Treasury in 1968 and devoted 43 years of his working life to public service ...

Isolated advisers enter the digital age

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... at the same time, they have been completely inundated with emails and calls from their existing clients as well as the general public for support and help during this period where markets are plummeting and the economic situation is increasingly uncertain." ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... average daily value traded on-market was $10.5 billion higher than in 2019, representing a 111% increase. CommSec executive general manager Richard Burns said investors had made a "large" response to the volatility in the market, as concerns abound as ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
As consumers saw their superannuation balances nosedive when the COVID-19 pandemic began wreaking havoc on the market, many were surprised to learn their retirement savings weren't quite as safe as they thought, reigniting the debate around 'balanced' ...

Plenty still want in on ETPs: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... with $1.6 billion. Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF enjoyed net flows of $538 million. Australian equities ETPs in general seemed popular during March, with net inflows of $1.2 billion. "One would have expected fixed interest products to be popular ...

COVID-19 to push life premiums up: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... "COVID-19 will deliver a further hard blow," Rice Warner said. The firm highlighted the sudden spike in unemployment and general economic downturn on the way, and said their combined impact would "swamp" that of the "some death and disability claims" ...

Association of Financial Advisers bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... at Aon Hewitt, where she spent more than eight years. Prior to that, she was a training manager at Count Financial. AFA general manager of policy and professionalism Phil Anderson welcomed Garrard to the team. "Caz Garrard has joined the AFA as manager ...

COVID-19 sparks renewed fight for commissions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... of the changes for advisers and the challenging environment that everyone is facing." Meanwhile, Colonial First State general manager, advice relationships Bryce Quirk wrote to advisers on 3 March 2020 to let them know grandfathered commissions would ...