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Equity Trustees adds former family office leader to board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... served on the boards of various not-for-profit organisations, including the Abbotsford Convent Foundation and St Catherine's School. Separately, the firm recently appointed new leaders to its in-house asset management team in Northward Capital founder ...

FICAP launches 2019 program, names new charity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
The Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) is gearing up for its "Who Wants to be a Rockstar?" fundraiser, with the new charity announced this month. Last Thursday, the FICAP committee and the charity beneficiaries from this year's fundraising ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
UTS Business School is introducing a new postgraduate financial planning course in 2019 to meet increased adviser demand resulting from FASEA's education standards. The Master of Financial Planning will be suitable to new entrants to the industry ...

Zurich partners for future of work and insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... ensuring workers are effectively protected and supported in an increasingly fragmented labour market. Working with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, Zurich has launched the Agile Protection program. An initial ...

Diversity is the answer to war for talent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... SIBOS this week, Rachel Cooper, professor in Gender, Work and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School, said that contrary to the experiences of Baby Boomers and Gen X, today's younger employees are better able to address ...

ASIC moves on Dollarmites

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... programs in Australian primary schools, including Commonwealth Bank's recently criticised Dollarmites program. ASIC said school banking programs are supposed to educate young Australians about the importance of saving by using the school to facilitate ...

Northern Trust appoints head of quant

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... multi-manager portfolio manager in Australia and the US. He has a master's degree in finance from UNSW's Australian School of business and a bachelor of business and advanced diploma in financial planning from RMIT. "Bennett's extensive research ...

Ban Dollarmites: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... marketing campaign aimed at Australian children. "The Dollarmites program uses slick marketing to target primary kids at school, turning them into long-term customers of a bad-value bank," Kirkland said. "Once you factor in recent revelations that Commonwealth ...

Reforms impact adviser mental health

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Financial advisers must band together to support their peers who are struggling to cope with the immense change occurring in the industry. Speaking at the AFA National Adviser Conference, Mindstar chief executive Aaron Williams said an increasing number ...

Perception is everything: Kewin

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... retain the rich experience we have among us while also growing the profession and making it an aspirational career path for school leavers," he said. Also addressing delegates, AFA vice president Michael Novak said advisers should hold their heads high ...