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Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Asset consultant Frontier Advisors has announced several new faces will be joining its senior team. Joe Clark and James Bulfin will join Frontier's alternatives and derivatives research team as senior consultants. Clark joins from QIC where he was senior ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... respectively. Western Australia remains in seventh position, ahead of Northern Territory. CommSec chief economist Craig James said while there has been some movement at the top of the rankings, there is actually little separating the top four economies. ...

Melbourne hedge fund quietly folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... Management. It won a couple of awards, including the best emerging manager at the Australian Hedge Fund Awards. In February, James Koutsoukos of BRI Ferrier was appointed to liquidate the company. Qato has no secured debts and was solvent at the time ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... how important it is for technology to step up and improve efficiencies for advisers, he said. Lantern Advisory director James Cavanough said that compliance was a bigger challenge to his advisory business than the coronavirus pandemic. "Compliance is ...

Mayfair 101 pushes on

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... their properties, loan-to-valuation ratios, investment term and investment amount," Mayfair 101 group managing director James Mawhinney said. "It's an important strategic move to bring more awareness and support to the region." Mayfair is targeting "qualified" ...

Law firm cuts pay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... of the firm (including its non-executive directors), will face a 15% reduction in their base pay. These directors include James MacKenzie, Mark Dewar, Elana Rubin and Jacqui Walters. Slater and Gordon's chief executive and managing director John Somerville ...

Major regulatory efforts delayed

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... participants in the Australian financial services sector are under enormous strain due to the effects of COVID-19," ASIC chair James Shipton said. "We also acknowledge that they are taking special measures to support their customers who are adversely ...

Former financial adviser permanently banned

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... credit businesses in Australia. ASIC has used its newly sharpened teeth to permanently ban former Adelaide financial adviser James Gibbs from having any involvement in financial services and credit businesses. Gibbs is the first person to be permanently ...

Chief economist update: Honey, COVID-19 got me sacked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... initial jobless claims provide a leading indicator of the unemployment rate, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard's prediction that the US unemployment rate could hit 30% in the second quarter appears to be on target - eyeballing ...

BNP Paribas hires from Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... role. Last year, BNP Paribas Asset Management hired an Aberdeen Standard Associate director of institutional distribution, James Fleiter, as a business development manager. Fleiter currently has responsibility for NSW, Australian Capital Territory and ...