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Vanguard veteran announces retirement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
... services some 12,000 Australian advisers. Outside of his Vanguard tenure, Bowerman served on the board of the SMSF Association, founded the FSC ETF working group and co-authored Wealth of Experience with Duffield. Vanguard Australia managing director ...

FPA, AFA merger talks continue

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2022
The proposed merger between the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has entered into the second round of member consultation. Recently, members have been invited to complete a survey to help ...

Aviva appoints head of real assets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2022
... roles at Investment Property Databank and M&G Investments. The new head of research is also co-chair of the European Association for Investors in the Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles Asset Level Index and a member of the IPF Research Steering Committee. ...

ASIC proceedings name Pendal board member

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
ASIC has started civil penalty proceedings against 11 current and former directors and executives of Star Entertainment Group, including a Pendal Group director. ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court argued that the Star's board and executives failed to ...

ASIC abandons $500k SMSF threshold

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... threshold but said fund expenses are proportionality higher, and net returns lower, for lower balance funds. SMSF Association deputy chief executive Peter Burgess welcomed the news, he said: "It's a significant breakthrough for our sector to have that ...

Expand access to financial services: AUSTRAC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... AUSTRAC developed this guidance in consultation with a broad range of industry groups, including the Australian Banking Association (ABA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. ABA chief executive Anna Bligh said it's an important ...

ALRC should prioritise advice regulations: FPA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has said the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) should prioritise advice regulations in its ongoing review of financial services law. In its latest submission to the ALRC review of the Legislative ...

Australian Ethical appoints chief executive, superannuation

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... boards for organisations focused on social enterprise and technology and is a director of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia. Meanwhile, Conrad Tsang is Australian Ethical's chief technology officer. Incidentally, last week Nathan ...

Code of Ethics must be fixed: Phil Anderson

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Phil Anderson said the Code of Ethics for financial advisers was not backed by industry during its 2019 implementation and remains the case now. The Code of Ethics, developed by the now dissolved ...

AFA, FPA merger in best interests

CASSANDRA BALDINI, CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
In offering an update on the proposed merger with the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) chair David Sharpe said he is hoping to have the full support of members and, despite speculation, a new ...