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Frontier appoints two senior consultants

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
Frontier Advisors has appointed Greg Barr and Anthony Michael as senior consultants in a bid to broaden the firm's range of expertise. Barr will commence his role on 3 May 2016, focusing on client servicing and managing some of Frontier's key advice ...

Lonsec and Zenith upgrade Fidelity ratings

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
Lonsec has upgraded the Fidelity Future Leaders Fund to "Highly Recommended" and Zenith has increased its rating of Fidelity's Australian mid- and small-cap fund managed by James Abela to "Recommended". In a statement Lonsec said, "James Abela is a ...

FSC elects new board member

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has elected a new board member from one of Australia's largest insurers. TAL group chief executive and managing director Brett Clark, who also co-chairs the FSC's life board committee, will step into the role. "Brett ...

Aberdeen CIO jumps ship to M&G

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
M&G chief executive Michael McLintock has announced his retirement as well as his replacement from Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen's chief investment officer Anne Richards will take the reins as chief executive, subject to regulatory approval in ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... willingness and the determination to act". The BOJ might not be too far behind. The Wall Street Journal quoted an aide of PM Abe saying that, "Conditions for additional easing have fallen into place". China's doing its bit too. Vice-President Li Yuanchao ...

Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... improvement (and after more than one year of QQE2), confidence remains far below the levels reached after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed leadership back in December 2012 and those following the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) launch of QQE. The slight improvement ...

Aberdeen appoints sales manager from AMP

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
Aberdeen Asset Management has appointed a new regional sales manager. Luke Mandekic joins Aberdeen's distribution team from AMP, where he was a model portfolio manager for AMP Advice Research. Prior to that, he was an investment analyst at AXA. "Luke ...

Third SMSF auditor banned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... refer matters to ASIC for possible action such as disqualification or suspension of their registration. Earlier this week Abe Samuel and Manoj Abichandani were also banned from being SMSF auditors.

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... ECB is expected to throw whatever else it could find in its kitchen after having already thrown the sink - and Japan - where Abe is now pondering fiscal stimulation - and emerging Asia and Latin America and OPEC. Let's not stop at the slowing global ...

ASIC bans another SMSF auditor

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
ASIC has permanently banned an auditor from providing services to self-managed superannuation funds. Based in Sydney, Abe Samuel was found to have breached independence requirements by the regulator, specifically by auditing a fund of which he was a ...