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PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Ex-Wallaby captain and chief executive ofA Centric Wealth Phil Kearns tells JamesA Fernyhough that there are more similarities between rugby and financial advice than first meet the eye. For a future Wallabies captain, Phil Kearns' rugby career did ...

ClearView reports $9.1 million profit

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
ClearView Wealth Limited has reported net profit after tax (NPAT) of $3.6 million, and underlying NPAT of $9.1 million. The latter figure represents a 7% rise from the same period last year. The financial advice and life insurance provider saw a growth ...

AustralianUnity profits fall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Australian Unity's profits for the first half of the financial year have plunged by almost half compared to last year's half-year results. In its interim results for the 2013-2014 financial year, Australian Unity recorded profits of 6.1%, compare with ...

Treasury looks at further FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
Treasury is considering confidential proposals to reverse rules that ban conflicted remuneration arrangements for corporate super specialist advisers, according to Douglas Latto, president of the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA). Traditionally ...

IOOF reports growth across the board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
IOOF has reported statutory net profit after tax of $48.3 million in its interim results, and will pay an interim fully franked dividend of 22.5 cents per share. The funds management, advice, superannuation and trustee services provider saw growth across ...

GSAM Australia MD retires

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
Philip Gardner, the managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) in Australia, will retire from his role at the end of the week. A spokesperson for GSAM did not say whether Gardner would be taking another role, adding that the departure ...

NAB reports $1.4 billion net profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported unaudited net profits of $1.4 billion and unaudited cash earnings of $1.55 billion for the December quarter. The latter figure represented a 7% rise from the corresponding period, and was 2% above the quarterly ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has called for superannuation to be taken out of the modern awards system, a move it believes would improve competition among super funds and ultimately benefit members. In its submission to the government discussion ...

Sinodinos announces SuperStream governance structure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The government has announced that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will have stewardship of the SuperStream gateway network for the next two years, in a move it says will provide "certainty and stability" for the superannuation industry. During ...

Morningstar CEO departs, replacement named

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
Morningstar Australasia chief executive Anthony Serhan will leave his role to take up the position of managing director of research and strategy, Asia-Pacific for Morningstar's global research group. He will be replaced by Heather Brilliant and Mark ...