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Actuaries Institute appoints new president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... its membership base. Among the leadership of the Actuaries Institute, Smartt is joined by senior vice president Jenny Lyon, John Evans as vice president, and chief executive David Bell.

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... Assistant Treasurer on 25 June 2015," the government said, referring to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group, led by John Trowbridge. The government will consider the extent to which legislation or action by ASIC may be necessary to implement ...

Zurich appoints investment specialist

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... investment analyst for Asian equities and global telecom stocks. He has also held positions at Pengana Capital, Perennial and Murray Johnstone. "Charles brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in financial markets to our team. His profound ...

Perennial to raise capital for Aussie equities LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... Alan Schoenheimer. Dick Morath and Paul Clitheroe are the remaining non-executive directors. Perennial Value founder John Murray is the LIC's managing director: "the Wealth Defender investment strategy actively seeks to deliver a 'best of both ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... significant policy processes. There will be a broad based tax review - the Tax White Paper, a government policy response to David Murray's Financial System Inquiry, reforms to lift financial adviser competency standards, completion of Mark Johnson's ...

Lonsec rolling out cloud-based practice management tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... this process, having previously served as manager, business development at GBST. According to Lonsec chief executive John Murray, FrontOffice is a "paradigm shift" for advisers. "Often individual clients will have more than one account," he said, "for ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... issue particular prominence, taking a heavily critical stance on the ANU's action. Liberal Party grandees Malcolm Fraser and John Hewson, however, supported the ANU's right to divest. Why the critical parties did not respond with such outrage at HESTA ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... representing retail super funds, banks and other large industry stakeholders, welcomed the recommendation. FSC chief executive John Brogden said that super funds having a majority of independent trustees would break "inappropriate relationships between ...

Industry funds reject majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... conflicts of interest and the inappropriateness of the equal representation model. Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden also put the emphasis on union influence. "Superannuation boards must be independent and free of vested interests ...

Make financial firms more accountable for products: FSI

ALICE URIBE  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... approach to reduce the risk of significant detriment to consumers." However the Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden told media this afternoon that he had reservations about increasing ASIC's product design powers. "There is ...