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Industry fund names new CIO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... supporting local communities and using his expertise to deliver outcomes for members. "I know LGIAsuper's members well. My father was a member, my brother is a member and Queensland is my home. I am keen to get back to my roots and explain our investment ...

How key is gender in retirement outcomes?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
A question about gender inequality in retirement was met with silence and then laughter at the recent Actuaries Institute Summit in Sydney. UNSW associate professor Anthony Asher, Mercer senior actuary David Knox and Rice Warner founder Michael Rice ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... the youngest of three sisters. Her family were cattle graziers and farmers, raising sheep and growing wheat and oats. Her father, the youngest in a family of 17 children, ran the business with his brothers. Her mother once worked as a teacher but helped ...

$200k on the life-line for new Freedom chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... and only cancelled the policy after forcing the man to repeat his desire to terminate the insurance with the help of his father.

Charity donates $10m to university

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... underway, the two said in a joint statement. Marcus Blackmore said the donation's significance lay in the final wish of his father and the company's founder Maurice Blackmore who started from a dispensary in Queensland and wanted naturopathy to be respected ...

When aged care advice takes an emotional toll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... yesterday's Financial Standard Best Practice Retirement Income Forum. After experiencing the highs and lows of transitioning her father into aged care, Focus Wealth Advisers senior financial adviser Alex Denham urged the audience to anticipate the ...

Former adviser jailed, ASIC posts FY18 stats

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... the unit price of an unlisted registered managed investment scheme; a portion of the proceeds sold benefited Birk's father financially. ASIC said that Gold Coast-based Birk gained about $800,000 from his dishonest conduct. ASIC commissioner Danielle ...

Freedom drops chief, slashes workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... engaged in unconscionable conduct for selling policies to vulnerable customers and a man with Down Syndrome. The man's father, Grant Stewart, shared how a Freedom salesperson sold the policy to his son and apparently couldn't tell he was disabled. ...

Freedom sold life insurance to intellectually disabled man: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... the phone. Recordings of the call demonstrate his son's speech difficulty, with Stewart's son needing to repeat after his father to cancel the policy. The Commission later heard recordings of phone calls between Freedom sales agents and Stewart's son ...

Only 17pct of Aussie families seek advice: St.George

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Latest research from St.George Bank highlights only 17% of Australian households seek financial advice. The bank's research also said 70% of parents taught themselves how to budget, however 43% did say there was some prior learning from their parents. ...