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Citi names global chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
Citi has appointed Jane Fraser to the role of chief executive as the incumbent retires after nearly four decades with the firm. Michael Corbat has been at the helm for the last eight years and will step down from official duties in February of 2021. ...

New managed portfolio on MyNorth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
Invest Blue and Russel Investments have partnered to launch a new managed portfolio through AMP's MyNorth platform. AMP said the Cornerstone Managed Portfolios was created to respond to increased adviser and investor demand for transparent, personalised ...

Perks appoints new director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
Wealth management firm Perks has appointed a new director to its private wealth division. Nick Connelly has been promoted to the role, having been with Perks since 2008. He was appointed associate director last year. "During his time at Perks, he has ...

OpenInvest names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Melbourne-based fintech OpenInvest has appointed a veteran board member and former NAB executive as chair. Spiro Pappas has over 30 years' experience in financial services and is currently chair of Splitit, Atlas Iron Limited and Cognian Technologies ...

FASEA adds exam sittings, approved subjects

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
FASEA has confirmed it will run six financial adviser exam sittings in 2021 at 31 locations across Australia, subject to COVID-19 restrictions. FASEA will hold exams from January 28 to February 2, March 25-30, May 20-25, July 15-20, September 9-14 and ...

Women receive worse advice: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Financial advisers tend to give female clients poorer advice and recommend riskier assets compared to male clients, a new study shows. Women are significantly more likely to receive undiversified financial advice than men, researchers from the Hong ...

CFS super distribution lead joins Allianz Retire+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
The head of superannuation distribution at Colonial First State has commenced in a new role, leading a newly created institutional partnership strategy at the retirement specialist. Fintan Thornton has been appointed head of institutional solutions ...

Mainstream expands private equity offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
Mainstream Fund Services has expanded its private equity services in the Asia-Pacific region. Mainstream said it brought its US private equity solution to Asia-Pacific, to allow general partners to benefit from one complete system for accounting, CRM ...

Iress adds to executive team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
Financial services technology company Iress has appointed a chief product officer with over 20 years' experience in software product leadership. Joydip Das will join the leadership team based in Melbourne on September 14 and will report to Iress ...

Ignition Advice announces fintech partnership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
Robo-advice technology provider Ignition Advice has launched a global partnership with Avaloq to broaden its distribution and bring scale to its client base Through the partnership Ignition's digital advice solutions will be offered to 150 financial ...