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Financial advice valued beyond returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... the respondents that no longer paid for advice," University of Adelaide's Akbar Zamin Ali said. Matt Brown, executive general manager of advice at Australian Unity, said the research highlights the difference good advice makes to the quality of people's ...

Frontier Advisors adds consultants

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
Frontier Advisors is expanding its consulting team with two new hires from Mercer and Lonsec. In response to new business growth, the advisory firm will welcome Daniel Leslie and Adrian Hoe as consultants. Both will operate in Frontier Advisors' generalist ...

CBA down, industry up for employment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
New research by Randstad has revealed the Commonwealth Bank is a much less attractive employer this year than it was last year, but the financial services industry as a whole has held steady in its ability to attract new employees. The Randstad research ...

Advisers forgo charitable conversations: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... conversations with clients, although more than a third want to embed it in the near future. Australian Unity Trustees executive general manager Emma Sakellaris says discussing clients' philanthropic objectives should be a key component of financial planning ...

TCorp appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
TCorp has hired Commonwealth Bank's long-standing head of debt markets. Simon Ling is joining TCorp as its general manager, financial markets. TCorp chief executive David Deverall said: "I'm delighted to welcome Simon to the executive team and I am ...

ASIC pushes regtech adoption

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
ASIC has launched three regtech events in conjunction with industry and other stakeholders to promote regtech adoption among Australian financial services organisations. These events are an opportunity for regtech startups and financial services organisations' ...

EQT names local head of fund services

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... the division for the offshore market. Russell Beasley was promoted to the role after spending more than four years as general manager of fund services. Beasley joined EQT in 2005 as a senior relationship and product manager, and moved in the role of ...

ASIC catches illegal dual licensees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... Act, an AFS licensee cannot be the authorised representative of another AFS licensee - with the only exceptions being general insurance underwriting agents and brokers operating under a binder given by an insurer. The regulator said in circumstances ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." - Rita Mae Brown. This famous quote might be true in general, but it certainly didn't apply to the 11th hour, last minute trade negotiations between the United States and China on the ...

Ken Marshman departs JANA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... $500 billion," JANA chief executive Jim Lamborn said. Dunn has been a non-executive director since 2017. She is a former general manager of funds management at Australian Unity and former general manager, wholesale from Perpetual. Commenting on his successor ...