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AMP head of retail sales departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... year. Stephen Craig joined AMP in 2008 as head of retail sales and marketing; he then became acting director, contemporary wealth management, head of goals-based solutions and head of bank sales before taking on his most recent position. In a social ...

Private wealth platform appoints ASX-listed corporate adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A blockchain-based private wealth platform that created China's first robo-advice solution appointed an ASX-listed corporate advisory firm for its initial coin offering (ICO). Bankorus, which now advises more than 200,000 high-net-worth investors representing ...

Queensland advice practice goes international

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A Queensland-based financial advice business is expanding its operations to the United Arab Emirates. Atlas Wealth Management, a provider of long-distance specialty advice to Australian expats, has established a new outpost in Abu Dhabi. Appointing ...

Acorns launches its own super product

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... of personal finance and we hope to use our platform to further educate and engage users on how they can invest and build wealth for their future," Lucas added. The super product will invest in seven exchange-traded funds: one from SPDR, four from iShares ...

ASIC hits former Westpac, NAB, YBR adviser with permanent ban

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
ASIC has permanently banned a financial adviser who worked at some of Australia's leading wealth management groups for unethical conduct. Muneer Mahmood Khan, also known under the alias Ivan Khan, was found to have appropriated $185,000 from an elderly ...

Private equity firm sells Bravura stake

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... a cornerstone investor in Bravura Solutions before its initial public offering has sold down its remaining stake in the wealth management software company. Ironbridge, which has about $1.5 billion in committed capital drawn from more than 40 global institutional ...

Netwealth offloads advice subsidiary

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... Bridgeport Financial Services has nine advisers and was established in 1999. Australian Unity chief executive officer of wealth and capital markets David Bryant said the first priority is to continue to work with the team at Netwealth to ensure a smooth ...

Wearables driving life insurance engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... inspiring an upsurge of interest in personal wellbeing. The challenge for insurers however, is determining how to access this wealth of data and use it most effectively without facing any conflicts of interest, the research noted. Mu said Vitality has ...

Advice clients demand philanthropic conversations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... crowd-funding is also helping meet basic individual needs such as medical care and funeral costs. The ASX-listed health, wealth and living group's profit hit $73.3 million in the six months to December; $64.8 million of which was proceeds from divesting ...

Former FPA chief steps down from board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... corporate counsel at Coca-Cola Amatil. Prior to her current role, Bowd was head of secretariat and board governance at ANZ Wealth and also served as a senior associate at Clayton Utz for eight years. She has been an officer of the Australian Army since ...