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TAL executive jumps to MLC Life

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
MLC Life Insurance has announced a new addition to its leadership team, hiring from TAL. Kent Griffin has been appointed as the insurer's chief financial officer having held the same position at TAL since 2012. MLC Life said Kent will lead both the ...

Count Financial treads new path

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
Count Financial is preparing for a rough couple of years as it transitions to a new pricing model. That said, the amount of advice being produced by the licensee has more than doubled despite losing 26% of its advisers. In its 1H20 results announcement ...

Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... 15% of the portfolio, the highest among the non-industry funds in our rated universe. "At the other end of the table is Advance. The 6% weight appears modest compared with peers, but this allocation is likely to grow as the group plans to expand its ...

Custodial excellence recognised

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... Teri Thomas. ACSA chair David Knights paid tribute to Thomas and Vijayanathan, noting both had volunteered their time to advance the association's cause. "The annual ACSA Awards are the main way we show our gratitude to the people of the asset servicing ...

Separate advice and product: AIOFP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... related to poor financial advice and product failures. It proposes each adviser pays $250 per annum, upfront two years in advance. Each AFSL holder pays 0.5% of gross revenue with a funding cap established. And for the product scheme, each provider pays ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
New technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) are set to radically transform and disrupt markets and economies. That's according to the latest research from KPMG and the Australian National ...

New fund invests $45m in SA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... have existed without such funding support." Dr Viraj Perea, chief executive of UniSA Ventures, said the fund would help advance a number of early-stage health technologies where funding is currently scarce. "It will help break down the barriers that ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
For the first time, climate crisis and environmental degradation have taken out the top five spots in a list ranking the risks most likely to impact the world over the coming decade. It comes as extreme weather events batter the world; with fires burning ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
New research points the finger at conflicted remuneration as one of the factors keeping women out of the financial advice industry. The University of Otago in New Zealand and RMIT University in Melbourne have collaborated to explore why so many fewer ...

ASIC increases levy costs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... respond to challenges as they arise." The regulator said it cannot predict with certainty its enforcement activities in advance and its budgeted costs represent its best estimate for enforcement costs throughout the year. The publication of the actual ...