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Bravura hires product manager from BT

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
Software provider Bravura Solutions has expanded its APAC team with the appointment of a product manager for life insurance. David Loader joins Bravura from BT Financial Group where he held various senior product management roles within the retail life ...

AFA recognises outstanding advisers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
Darren Johns from Align Financial has won this year's AFA Adviser of the Year Award and Henderson Maxwell is the AFA Practice of the Year. Now in its fourteenth year, the AFA Adviser of the Year Award is a joint initiative between the AFA and Zurich ...

Insurance reforms get member support

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
AFA members have given their approval to the proposed reforms to the life risk industry, after a motion calling for removal of support of the Life Insurance Framework received little support in a vote. The special resolution fell well short of the votes ...

Adviser reform about recovering social licence

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... product manager Scott Moffitt, former AFA chief executive Richard Klipin, FOS lead ombudsman investments and advice June Smith, and APRA board member Geoff Summerhayes discussed all the major talking points relating to the Life Insurance Framework, concluding ...

Erin Truscott named AFA Rising Star

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
GCA Financial's Erin Truscott has been named this year's AFA Rising Star in a ceremony at the industry association's annual conference in the nation's capital. The AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, which is supported by ANZ Wealth, was launched in ...

How a niche can add value

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
In the evermore complex world of financial advice, trying to be a jack-of-all-trades could be hurting your business. That's according to 2015 AFA Adviser of the Year David Reed, who told delegates at this year's annual conference that he had gone from ...

Australian funds rank well on ESG

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australian equity fund managers tend to rank higher than their global peers when it comes to incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment decisions, Lonsec Research has found. According to the researcher's newly ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... an economy with active market led capital management." In response, Briand referred back to Hargreaves fund manager David Smith's Financial Times piece wherein he said passive management was "inevitably a parasitic industry," saying that "the criticisms ...

HLB Mann Judd appoints partner in Melbourne

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
HLB Mann Judd has appointed a new partner to its Melbourne business advisory services division. Taking on the role is Eric Maillard who has more than 20 years' experience in business services and previously worked at both Shadforth and Deloitte. Maillard ...

Top boutique in first push for new investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
One of the top performing fund managers in Australia, Ophir Asset Management, is looking to partner with family offices and independent financial advisers in a bid to attract long-term high net worth investors. From inception in August 2012 to the end ...