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Chief executive departs mine industry super fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Ten billion dollar industry superannuation fund Mine Wealth + Wellbeing is searching for a new chief executive after announcing the departure of its current leader. Mine Wealth + Wellbeing chief executive Bruce Watson will leave over the coming months ...

Outsourcing is the future of compliance

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
The wealth management sector will increasingly outsource its administration systems to streamline compliance issues, according to Bravura Solutions Asia Pacific managing director Roland Slee. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, Slee said that because ...

Many APLs still block managed account usage

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... managed funds and platforms by their clients. This greater awareness of managed accounts explains why almost all the major wealth management brands - AMP, CFS, BT, ANZ, Macquarie, MLC, netwealth - now offer these next generation platform solutions to ...

Robots can't read your dreams, advice firm warns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... as it's hard to replace a human's ability to discuss a client's dreams and aspirations, an advice group has said. Cigna Wealth senior financial adviser Zoe Downs said that recent growth in computer generated services is "confusing for consumers." She ...

NAB Prosper launches next month

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... digital advice service will be a tool that addresses a conundrum across its customer base. NAB executive general manager wealth advice Greg Miller, told Financial Standard that 80% of Australians were not seeking advice and that NAB Prosper would effectively ...

More Macquarie advisers flock to Shaw

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Shaw and Partners (Shaw) has appointed five more Macquarie veterans just weeks after the private wealth firm hired three others from the financial services giant. Former Macquarie Private Wealth Victorian state manager Malcolm Cameron has taken on the ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... imagine ourselves as part of Europe or Britain? Clearly we do not. This is the same logic that Colonial First State, the wealth division of the Commonwealth Bank, uses in Asia: The "Colonial" disappears and the "First State" stays. It makes sense. Accordingly ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... sign that there are opportunities in the asset class despite warnings of a property bubble. The latest Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management Global HNW Insights Survey for 2015 revealed that Australian HNWs' allocation to real estate is 30.8% of their ...

IRESS acquires UK fintech businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... executive of strategy. New will be based in the UK and will report directly to Walsh. He was most recently a director of wealth and asset management at EY in London and was the lead partner for IRESS' business integration of Avelo in 2013.

Super board governance legislation introduced today

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... banks, despite customers losing millions of dollars in numerous cases of financial mismanagement overseen by the banks' wealth divisions and their boards. "Industry Super Australia urges the all parliamentarians to reject these bank-designed laws and ...