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Wilsons starts Canberra office

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
The 125-year-old advice and stockbroking firm is establishing a Canberra office, as two financial advisers based in the region join from Elston. Tim Anderson and Richard Taylor have joined Wilsons' private wealth advisory team, which is headed by Paul ...

ETF liquidity disappears: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
A new report from Morningstar has explored how ETFs performed in stressed market environments during February and March 2020, revealing liquidity suffered. ETFs, despite their reputation as extremely liquid instruments, could not escape the market turmoil ...

Macquarie makes telecoms bid

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) has made a non-binding indicative proposal to acquire 100% of Vocus Group. Vocus confirmed MIRA had made an offer to acquire the company for $5.50 per share. The offer is an increase on Vocus' previous ...

Dealer group bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
One of Australia's largest privately owned financial advice dealer groups has made two key hires. Kevin Mayne and Lisa Ng are both joining Lifespan Financial Planning as national practice development managers. Mayne joins Lifespan after five years as ...

Centrepoint to roll out advice tech

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
Centrepoint Alliance has formed an agreement with UK-based financial advice technology provider Intelliflo to distribute the service across the Australian market. The ASX-listed advice group's adviser network will be some of the first in Australia to ...

IOOF subsidiary loses appeal

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
IOOF is set to pay tens of millions in compensation after losing an appeal involving its subsidiary Australian Executor Trustees (SA) Limited. The Court of Appeal dismissed AET's appeal against a decision made by the Supreme Court of New South Wales ...

APRA commends super funds on tough year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
The prudential regulator had mostly positive things to say around Australia's superannuation industry last year as it released its annual review. The APRA 2020 Year in Review highlighted the difficult circumstances faced by those under its watch, with ...

Mercer hires from Australian Unity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
Mercer has hired the former chief executive of Australian Unity Bank to lead its superannuation services. Tim Barber will step into the head of Mercer Super role, leading the flagship Mercer Super Trust and its related portfolio services business. Mercer ...

Investors unprepared for unexpected events: Study

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
Over 70% of companies are not prepared to detect unexpected events like COVID-19, according to a survey of over 400 global risk and compliance decision makers. The study by Dataminr found that only 29% of firms felt confident they have the technology ...

Rest GM to head BT platforms

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
BT has appointed a former Rest executive as head of platforms after Dina Kotsopoulos' departure in September last year. Kieran Varcoe will step into the role, joining BT from $55 billion industry fund Rest where he was general manager of administration ...