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Advice experiences can help educate non-advised

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... advice, more non-clients may better understand the benefits of receiving financial advice. The research was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council in partnership with the Financial Services Council (FSC) and reinforced the benefits ...

Finsia scholarship winner named

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
Finsia has revealed the winner of the 2016 Hugh DT Williamson scholarship. Senior associate at Ashurst, Lucienne Cassidy, has been named as this year's recipient and will be granted an award valued at $16,500 to assist her to complete the Business Essentials ...

IFM expands into Hong Kong

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
IFM Investors, the fund manager owned by 29 Australian not-for-profit super funds, has opened a Hong Kong office and been granted a licence from the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. The new office complements IFM's existing operations ...

Evergreen makes senior hires

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... director. She has extensive experience in the funds management industry having held roles such as associate director at Grant Samuel, vice president at AllCapital US, manager - financial engineering at Man Group, and head of investment analytics at AMP ...

Bank inquiry recommends breaking big four oligopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics' first report in its review of the four major banks has recommended breaking the big four's "oligopoly" and introducing competition into the sector. The report said this could be achieved ...

Kathy Havers from Catalyst wins Future2 award second-year running

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
A financial planner from Melbourne has taken out the Financial Planning Association of Australia's 2016 Future2 community service award for the second time. Kathy Havers of Catalyst Financial Group was presented with the award at the annual Future2 ...

FPA philanthropic arm donates $147k

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... been in the areas of financial literacy, skills training, work experience, community service and mentoring. Next year's grant applications open in April 2017, with information available at www.future2foundation.org.au. 2016 Future2 Make the Difference! ...

AMP and Zenith portfolios add global bond fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... North and Zenith model portfolios have added a global bond fund. The Payden Global Income Opportunities Fund, distributed by Grant Samuel Funds Management, is an unconstrained global fixed income fund and is based on Payden's absolute return strategy. ...

IOOF launches new adviser portal

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... browser Self-validating online forms to minimise input error and increase efficiency Security features to allow advisers to grant and manage access to their support staff New trading and flexible investment instruction functionality "We are strong believers ...

Digital advice as commonplace as internet banking

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Once big institutions come around to the benefits of digital member engagement, digital advice services will become as reliable and ubiquitous as internet banking is now, according to Decimal founder and executive director, strategy and innovation Jan ...