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Financial services complaints rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Complaints made about financial services have almost doubled since last year, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). In its yearly report, AFCA revealed complaints had risen to 80,546 from 47,223, which is a 14% increase ...

Former Socceroo joins Crescent Foundation board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
The non-profit organisation backed by Islamic superannuation fund Crescent Wealth has appointed a former Socceroo player to its board. Craig Foster played for the Socceroos for four years and was chief football analyst at SBS for 18 years. In addition ...

Life insurers recognised for innovation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... offerings. For health and wellness initiatives, MLC Life won four categories: the Overall Health and Wellness Excellence Award, Devices and Health Tracking Award, Physical and Mental Health Support Award, and Discounts and Healthy Living Rewards Award. ...

Sydney multi-boutique hires from Perpetual

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Channel Capital has hired from Perpetual to add in-house legal capability. Greg Wong has joined Channel as its general counsel. He will have oversight of legal and regulatory matters across the Channel group, supporting the strategic direction of the ...

PwC appoints wealth services MD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
The former ANZ Private Bank head of private advisory has jumped to PwC to take on the role of managing director: wealth services, private clients. Luke McCann headed private advisory at ANZ Private Bank for six months prior to which he was national ...

FPA announces three board additions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... the depth of knowledge on the FPA board." James is currently the chair of the FPA's Gold Coast chapter and has been a FPA award finalist and winner on multiple occasions. Matheson is a long-standing member of the FPA an FPA Distinguished Service Award ...

Ninety One wins equity mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
A $42 billion superannuation fund has awarded a mandate that targets Chinese equities to the newly rebranded Ninety One. State Super has allocated the mandate to Ninety One's 4Factor All China Equity strategy. Ninety One manages $205 billion with ...

Alternatives win big mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
Alternatives asset managers won the most mandates last financial year, marking their best period yet, according to new research. Rainmaker's Mandate Chaser shows the last 12 months to June 2020 were busy for alternatives managers, experiencing a ...

AMP awards mandate to BlackRock

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
BlackRock has won a passive investment strategy mandate from AMP New Zealand for an undisclosed amount. AMP's subsidiary AMP New Zealand Wealth Management (NZWM) has awarded the mandate to BlackRock Investment Management to deliver the new indexed ...

Vanguard awards global equity mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Vanguard has awarded a US$3.4 billion mandate to a boutique fund manager, replacing Franklin Templeton subsidiary Edinburgh Partners. Sprucegrove Investment Management will manage about 35% of the Vanguard International Value Fund, which has US$9.8 ...