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Post Royal Commission change is all talk: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
Despite the revelations of the Royal Commission, ASIC is still experiencing deliberate delays from financial institutions in meeting reporting requirements. On Friday, ASIC chair James Shipton told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and ...

Infrastructure manager grows local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
A global infrastructure manager has hired from Clearview and Powerwrap as it expands its Australian team. RARE infrastructure has hired Hamish Bell to support its distribution team with investment and technical sales expertise. In his most recent role ...

Diversified group enters custom platform space

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
An ASX-listed financial services company is rolling out its first white-labelled managed account platform to a Victorian dealer group. Fiducian Group was selected by the unnamed group - reported to have about $200 million in funds under advice - following ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Integrity Life appointed a new head of retail product as it continues to expand its operations. William Rogers joins the life insurance provider from CommInsure, where he was a senior product development and research manager for the last three years. ...

Young advisers key to business sustainability

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
The highest performing financial services firms are those that are more likely to hire younger advisers, according to new research. Macquarie's second bi-annual AFS Benchmarking Report shows that more than 55% of high performing firms are hiring younger ...

Macquarie boss joins climate change commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... aim of catalysing a global movement to bring "scale and speed" to climate adaptation solutions. The initiative is led by tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, former UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank chief executive Kristalina ...

SuperConcepts names new technology lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... years, including working on the prototype of SuperMate. Ackerman worked at SuperCorp for 12 years, left for an ASX-listed tech firm in 2015 and returned to SuperConcepts in 2017. SuperConcepts also announced a new chief information officer in Grant Christensen. ...

Temenos scores digital transformation mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
Software firm Temenos scored a deal with an Australian financial services firm with $1.7 billion of funds under management. Uniting Financial Services (UFS) will use Temenos' T24 core banking, analytics, financial crime mitigation and risk and compliance ...

Mercer wins two super fund mandates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
Mercer has renewed its administration mandate with a $9 billion industry superannuation fund; and it has become manager for the $250 million Anglican National Super plan. The Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney said it has replaced long-time manager ...

Liquidnet appoints Australia head

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
The institutional trading network has appointed a new head of Australia after the former head left for Chi-x. Kate Weidenhofer will now be responsible for Liquidnet's strategic direction and its next phase of growth, the company said. She replaces ...