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Above and beyond: Planner excellence recognised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... of time and effort into ensuring that he went above and beyond to achieve a great outcome for the client." The FPA University Student of the Year Award was given to Graeme Morris of Griffith University who was commended for a strong University Grade ...

Chief economist update: US consumer power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... cut at 38.1% but lower than the 39.2% a week before. The answer could be in the US consumer. They are optimistic. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index rose to 96.8 in November - its highest reading in four months - from 95.5 in the ...

Financial planning pioneer to speak at FPA Congress

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... advisers can expect from his session. Mitch Anthony has been a thought leader in financial planning for over 20 years. The University of Texas credits him as introducing the idea of "financial life dialogues" with his 2001 book Your Clients Your Life ...

Governance experts join boutique

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... to our team." Drew and Walk are founders of Drew, Walk & Co consulting. Drew is a professor of finance at Griffith University and former managing partner of Stonechat Capital. Walk is adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame and also a former ...

Pensioners lose decades of savings in 24 hours

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... research found the more highly educated a person was the more likely they were to fall for pension scams. Those with university degrees were 40% more likely to accept a free pension review and 21% more likely to take up an offer to access their pension ...

Former PIMCO chief guilty in admissions scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... Singer and others, beginning in 2012, to pay a total of $525,000 to facilitate his daughter's admission to the University of Southern California (USC) as a purported recruit for the soccer team. He also sought to have his son admitted to USC as a ...

New chair at Local Government Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... board chair is Kyle Loades who has worked with NRMA, Credit Union Australia. Loades is currently a professor at the University of Newcastle. In another addition to the board, Sandi Orleow is joining it as an independent director, with extensive experience ...

Growing advice group in commissions fight

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... afford to take on any more clients," Vagliviello said. "What the banks may do is then employ lowly paid FASEA fresh university graduates to provide the advice and therefore take over the industry with the blessing of the Government that ostensibly set ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... graduate to trillionaires will be Jack Ma and Pony Ma. Jack Ma is the co-founder of Alibaba Group and was previously a university lecturer. Ma Huateng (Pony May) has an engineering background and co-founded Tencent in 1998 which owns popular messaging ...

Impact investing difficult to measure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
A new report produced by the Responsible Investment Association of Australia (RIAA) along with the University of Auckland and AMP Capital has revealed how difficult it is for fund managers to actually measure the influence of impact investments. The ...