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UBS chief investment strategist leaves

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... completed a Master of Business in Applied Finance from UTS in 1995. Prior to this, he completed an economics degree with honours at University of Sydney. Earlier this month, UBS partnered with New Zealand AI company FaceMe to produce a digital version ...

FSC honours life insurance industry talent

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
The Financial Services Council awarded its highest accolades to the life insurance industry's brightest stars at a gala dinner in Sydney overnight. The annual FSC Life Insurance Awards, held at the Ivy Ballroom, recognised three talented individuals ...

Perth planner named Professional of the Year

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
Several of the highest honours in financial planning were awarded at the Financial Planning Association Professionals Congress in Hobart today, attended by about 1100 delegates. It was a double whammy win for Perth-based Capital Partners Private Wealth ...

Countplus launches scholarship

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... talent, maintain high client satisfaction rates, and develop skills to drive long-term business strategies. The scholarship honours Countplus founder and former chair Barry Lambert who retired in April. Countplus chief executive Matthew Rowe said Reeves ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... through the recession it "had to have." He began studying economics at La Trobe University and graduated with first-class honours in the early 1990s. During the recession there were few jobs going in Melbourne and Anthony applied for a cadetship at the ...

FPA awards associate adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... students who demonstrate strong potential in the areas of accounting, banking and finance. The Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award honours the highest achieving student in the CFP(R) Certification Program. "Both are outstanding award recipients who will help ...

AFA Adviser, Practice of the Year named

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... best in the financial advice profession. "The AFA Adviser of the Year and Practice of the Year Awards are the highest honours that can be bestowed on financial advisers in Australia. Nominees are put through a comprehensive judging process including ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... products, according to Canstar's 2015 Star Ratings Report. The report found that both insurers "couldn't be separated for top honours in providing outstanding value overall across the life insurance categories." TAL was highlighted for its low premiums ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Boral) while he was still at school and then bought Carlton & United Breweries while studying his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, at the University of New South Wales. Remarkably, he has had breweries in his portfolio in one form or another ever ...

Plato hires senior quant analyst from SSgA

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... most recently as head of SSgA's Advanced Research Center in Sydney. Whiteoak has a PhD in Astrophysics and a first class honours degree in Science from the University of Sydney. Plato's founder and managing director, Dr Don Hamson said: "A number of ...