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Former adviser slapped with 12 charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
A former financial adviser has been charged with 12 counts of dishonest conduct for falsifying clients' documents to access their superannuation accounts. The Downing Centre Local Court yesterday slapped the charges on David Mario Valvo while running ...

NZ Super Fund chief investment officer departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... public roles during his career for organizations where transparency and resiliency are essential." "He brings not only a wealth of investing knowledge to the job, but he also has the temperament to understand the needs of our members and public sector ...

HUB24 growth officer jumps to AZ NGA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... quality advice to more Australians." Stafford has over 25 years' financial services experience, spanning superannuation, wealth management, life insurance and advice. She joined HUB24 in 2022 after seven years at MetLife in various senior roles including ...

Wealth firm gears up to change administrator

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
Acclaim Wealth is preparing to conduct a data migration for its AMG Super Personal Pension Division next week, involving approximately 6000 members with funds under management of $1.6 billion. The migration will move these members from an old FNZ technology ...

Mercer Super recruits growth lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... client management, he was tasked with developing relationships with pension funds, large asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds. Before that, he ran an Aussie dollar debt syndicate, building a franchise that achieved a top four league table position. ...

Investment managers embracing AI: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... opportunity, cited as significant or very significant by 83% of managers. While healthcare (72%), financial services and wealth management (70%), legal services (66%), banking (64%), and insurance (61%) are the next-most-cited areas of opportunity for ...

Jo Townsend named chief executive of NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
One of Australia's most experienced superannuation executives will take the helm of New Zealand's sovereign wealth fund, following Matt Whineray's departure late last year. Guardians of NZ Superannuation have appointed Jo Townsend as head ...

QMV Legal folds, managing partner to launch new firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... offering is not quite a natural fit or aligned to our role as the data and technology partner to the superannuation and wealth sector in Australia. After careful review and in collaboration with the QMV Legal senior team, we have mutually agreed that ...

Funds SA recruits from LGT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
Funds SA recently welcomed a new head of technology, hiring from LGT Wealth Management. Simon Boyley has joined in the role, returning home from London where he spent seven years with LGT Wealth Management's IT team, most recently as head of technology. ...

Wholesale investor tests up for parliamentary review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... of the most popular are the product value test whereby an investible asset is $500,000-plus. The other is the individual wealth test in which an investor has either net assets of $2.5 million or gross income of $250,000 per annum for the last two years ...