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Former Securitor manager joins Paragem

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... Kouimanis' leadership with Securitor. "Kouimanis' experience in leading high performing advice teams and communities with a focus on strategic growth and strong practice development is a distinguishable feature of his professional background," it said. ...

Advice industry compresses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... fastest growing platform products are either managed accounts of offer model portfolios. The fastest growing are Pursuit Focus Allocated Pension, BT Panorama Super, AMP Super Directions Personal, MLC MasterKey Business Super and HUB24 Invest. When it ...

Perpetual announces new executive hire

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... executive, Rob Adams, said the creation of the role was a key appointment to the Perpetual Executive Committee as it continues to focus on strategic growth across all businesses. "The creation of the chief operating officer role as a result of our Operating ...

More engagement with custodians needed: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... changes underway in the industry. ACSA chief executive, Robert Brown said custodians are continuously evolving through their focus on operational efficiency and in support of the growth and sophistication of key client sectors. "Supporting the efficient ...

Fund manager hires from Paradice

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... likes to have fun. "Bentley is an experienced executive with broad experience within the financial services industry with focus on investment management operations, performance, client reporting, banking, compliance and investment fund administration," ...

Surplus may not be as advertised: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum, Grattan Institute budget policy and institutional reform program director Danielle Wood explained the much touted federal government surplus may not be all it was cracked up to be. Wood focused ...

Super fund admits its gender pay gap increased

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
An ethical super fund has published all the work it does internally to promote gender equality, admitting its own gender pay gap grew in favour of men. Future Super, which has about $350 million of members' money, began reviewing its gender pay gap ...

ISA demands pull Combet from ME Bank

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... both the bank and its customers well for the future," Combet said. "My retirement from the ME Bank board will enable me to focus closely on these two demanding roles at a time of significant growth and change in the superannuation industry".

Non-bank lender acquires Melbourne firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... depth and breadth of Pallas Capital's investment product and our investor base." "We're motivated by the opportunity to focus on a product pipeline of c. $1.5bn that offers wholesale investors some of the strongest risk adjusted returns in the CRE capital ...

Old boys, girls clubs dominate boards

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... dissatisfaction was a lack of strategy. "The major reasons for dissatisfaction are a lack of board strategy with too much focus on the operational and a lack of both governance and professionalism - particularly in the not-for-profit sector," she said. ...