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AFA makes three senior appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
The Association of Financial Advisers has made three key appointments. The first, Troy Nutley, joins the AFA as senior adviser, policy and professionalism. Prior to the AFA, Nutley held roles at Centrepoint Alliance and the Financial Ombudsman Service. ...

Man Group appoints EM debt head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
Man Group's discretionary investment management subsidiary Man GLG has appointed a head of emerging market debt strategies. Based in New York, Guillermo OssA(C)s joins Man GLG from HSBC Asset Management, where he was working from 2011 overseeing the ...

Vanguard notches fourth successive year of record inflows

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Vanguard, the world's largest provider of index funds, has notched up its fourth successive year of record inflows with US$256 billion ($372 billion) coming through its doors in 2015. The figure represents a 5.3% increase on the previous year's inflows. ...

Buffett brings adviser PI products to Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) has announced it is introducing professional indemnity products in Australia, including one for financial planners. The new policies are Executive First Directors & Officers Liability ...

Mine Wealth + Wellbeing partners admin newcomer

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Mine Wealth + Wellbeing is changing its administration systems provider to Recreo Financial, a small fintech company with its early experience in the SMSF market. The deal sees the$9.5 billion mining industry super fund taking a minority stake in Recreo. ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
The proposal for superannuation funds to have a comprehensive income product for retirement (CIPR) has experts cautious about defaulting members at a time when individual retirement solutions are most needed. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation ...

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 ...

Madison FG grows advisers by 20%

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... million in risk premiums. Madison FG has appointed former national business manager at Capstone Financial Planning, Jaime Johns, to support the growing number of advisers. Johns is now national practice development manager and she will focus on growing ...

Market Vectors QUAL ETF added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
The Market Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality exchange traded fund (QUAL) has been added to the BT SuperWrap and Asgard Super platforms. In its first year, QUAL has returned 35.81% (after fees) to 29 October 2015, outperforming the standard international ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...