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Iress adds new operations, customer service leaders

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... Trustees. As operations chief, Haqqani oversees delivering strategic, operational and financial outcomes for the wealth business. In the newly created role of chief customer officer for wealth in Australia and New Zealand, Kelli Willmer is responsible ...

Trustees lack urgency, strategy on RIC: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
... shrugging off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and are failing to integrate this mandate into their business plans. One year since the Retirement Income Covenant took effect, a joint examination of 15 trustees by ASIC and APRA ...

Michele Bullock to be next RBA governor

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... has served close to 17 years with the central bank. Her responsibilities at the RBA have included the financial system, business services, the currency, and the payments system. She holds a Masters of Science (Economics) degree from the London School ...

Greg Combet steps down as IFM Investors, ISA chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
... industry super funds and global pension funds to benefit their members. This purpose makes IFM a distinct funds management business, one that aligns with my own values in representing working people." In May, the government said it would legislate a ...

Ignition Advice appoints Sally Loane as chair

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... Meurer who is stepping down from the role after eight years. Loane is an experienced chair, non-executive director, and business leader. Aside from her tenure with the FSC between 2014 and 2021, she has also worked as a non-executive director at SCEGGS ...

Atrium hires abrdn wholesale lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... wholesale distribution, Laura Mitchell has landed at Atrium Investment Management. She joined the asset manager as a graduate business analyst in 2011 before being promoted to business development adviser and finally a director last year. In 2017, Mitchell ...

Budget cuts advisers' power bills, admin burden

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... rising costs of power bills and reducing administration burdens. Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that the Small Business Energy Incentive will help about 3.8 million small- and medium-sized enterprises save on their energy bills by way of a ...

Jones calls for taxonomy to clarify greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023
... additional $4.3 million in the next financial year to assist ASIC to continue its existing focus on greenwashing. "Sustainable business strategy has to start in boardrooms and in investment decisions, and not in the marketing department," Jones said. ...

RBA appointments prompt debate

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... core change to hand over cash rate control to the new board is a "significant departure" from the usual way of doing business at Australia's central bank but agreed it will strengthen accountability. "It better aligns the RBA's monetary decision-making ...

Frontier Advisors tops asset consultant ranking

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023
... endorsement." "Being able to provide quality advice and research across all areas, and for all types of clients, is vital for a business like ours and obviously valued by our diverse range of clients. "In the face of recently onboarding a number of clients ...