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Cumulus practices dumping wraps for MDAs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
Four Cumulus Financial Group-aligned practices have started offering managed discretionary account services, finding them more efficient than wrap platforms. The practices - Shine Financial Services, Array Financial Services, Mayneline Financial Services ...

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 ...

CBA refunds $7.6 million to 8400 customers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has started contacting more than 8000 customers to refund a total of $7.6 million after failing to apply fee waivers and ongoing benefits to its AgriAdvantage Plus package holders. The failure occurred over several years ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has advocated more support to Australia's start-up businesses, including fintechs, in line with the federal government's commitment to "an innovative Australia." Helping launch IPO and placements app OnMarket yesterday ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... a virtual hackathon with a developer program, a worldwide network of fintech experts, and the bank's global reach to discover and incubate solutions from across more than 100 markets.

Early insurance claimants return to work faster

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... "Group Insurance claims are a complex area. The greater the available data volumes, the more we are can drill down to discover credible findings," said Rice Warner head of consulting and research Jenni Baxter. She added, "The discovered probabilities ...

Afiniation adds weight to Citi fintech initiative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... a virtual hackathon with a developer program, a worldwide network of Fintech experts, and the bank's global reach to discover and incubate solutions from across more than 100 markets. Citi's managing director of customer franchise, Linda Duncombe said ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The head of a large Australian superannuation fund once complained that a young employee at AAS didn't know anything about the super industry. Little did they know almost a decade later that same employee would be chief executive at AvSuper. Darren ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Capital Preferences has designed a new tool to help financial advisers better understand their clients' and, in turn, help them make better investment decisions, with the help of a scientist from the University of California, Berkeley. The financial ...