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Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... 'hot mess' inherited by Jones. This is to create better access for consumers to affordable, cost effective and professional advice, Macdonald said, and urgently implement the recommendations from Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR) ...

Former Qualitas duo launch funds management shop

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
Former Qualitas duo Manuel Paraskevos and Ethan Dixon have opened Poinsettia Capital, a Brisbane-based advisory and funds management firm that provides tailored debt and equity finance for mid-market residential projects in South-East Queensland. The ...

Aware Super appoints UK private equity lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Aware Super has bolstered its London team with the appointment of three executives to manage its infrastructure, private equity and property portfolios in Europe and the US. Importantly, the $190 billion superannuation fund has recruited Frank Bulman ...

Mercer Super recruits whistleblower as risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... be to build the best Line 2 risk team in the superannuation industry," he said. "If you are a risk or compliance professional... keep an eye out - job advertisements will begin appearing shortly." Last August, Mercer Super was fined for making misleading ...

Activist fund manager promotes three staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... Wilson's advisory arm and was a credit research analyst at UBS Asset Management. Milne, the second investment professional to get a title bump, works with Wilson's leaders or large-cap fund investing in companies with compelling fundamentals ...

FAAA calls for stronger consumer protections in advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... advice be explicitly excluded from any definition of simple advice," it said. The association also called for allowing professional financial advisers to demonstrate professional judgement, rather than follow prescriptive and restrictive checklists. ...

Sequoia appoints licensee, adviser services lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... across more than 22.37 million securities. AWAG took the stake after Unrandom director - and former Sequoia head of professional services - Brent Jones ceased to be a substantial shareholder on 30 October 2024 after an attempt to oust Crole. The Takeovers ...

Australia tops list for financial services job growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
Australia recorded a significant upswing in professional job vacancies, led by the financial services sector in March, according to the Robert Walters Global Jobs Index. The research found that professional white-collar vacancies in financial services ...

Labor wins: What super, advice industries want

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... the returning government and look forward to working closely with them to deliver meaningful reforms that support professional financial advice," Abood said. "Australians are increasingly recognising the vital role that quality advice plays in achieving ...

ASIC bans unlicensed WA adviser

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... Kendrick was an authorised representative of Great Southern Securities between 8 March 2004 and 21 October 2005, Professional Investment Services between 22 July 2009 and 7 April 2010, Jigsaw Support Services between 9 April 2010 and 2 August 2012, Charter ...