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AMP to cull super trustee, five funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... its Australian wealth management business with its banking division to create AMP Australia, elevating former wealth boss Alex Wade to chief executive of the new unit.

Investment firm adds portfolio manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... of portfolio integration at a $54 billion superannuation fund has joined a Melbourne-based multi-asset investment manager. Alex Cathcart joined Drummond Capital Partners in December, taking the role of portfolio manager. Drummond Capital Partners is ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... highly contentious changes to BOLR terms (more detail below). Shortly after, the then-head of AMP's advice business, Alex Wade told Financial Standard AMP had done all that was legally required of it in consulting with the AMP Financial Planning ...

More MySuper accounts close than open: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... account consolidation, superannuation funds transferring zombie accounts to eligible rollover funds, and people retiring." Alex Dunnin, director of research at Rainmaker said the volatility of these account measures, especially in an environment of account ...

Advice group appoints director

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
A financial advice group has appointed a new independent director, in a bid to grow the company in the current uncertain environment. Alexander Beard has been appointed as an independent non-executive director at Centrepoint Alliance, joining the group ...

Platform appoints TPB director

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... role. "Berry's experience demonstrates leadership, change management and stakeholder management skills," Xplore chair Alex Hutchison said. "These skills together with her broad financial services industry experience that includes financial advice ...

ESG scores may be inflated: Eaton Vance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
As investors seek to integrate ESG data into their investment processes, they can mistakenly conflate ESG scores in practice with more familiar financial quality metrics, new research from Eaton Vance has revealed. The paper suggests the conflation ...

New boutique launches with Channel Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... Light Warrior is former Goldman Sachs investor Matthew Tominc, as the new boutique's investment chief. He is joined by Alex Debney, formerly of Maquarie's real assets and infrastructure business and Goldman Sachs. The investment committee is ...

Industry funds dominate risk-adjusted MySuper returns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... managed funds are assessed, using a selection of strictly defined quantitative measures of volatility against returns," said Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker director of research. "There is much more to assessing a MySuper product's risk-adjusted outcome than ...

AMP cuts ongoing advice agreements

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... sentiment, pending legislative change, operational matters and increasing compliance requirements," AMP Australia chief executive Alex Wade said. "We think annual agreements best serve the interests of clients who want advice over a period of time." ...