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Fitzpatricks Private Wealth builds advice profile

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
High net worth advisory firm Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has signed John McMurdo in the role of group managing director and added Chris Cuffe to its board of directors. McMurdo, who was formerly chief executive officer of Centric Wealth and managing ...

Asset allocation more important than clever products

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
Advisers are relying more on smarter asset allocation strategies than complex new products, reveals a survey of its advisers by independent superannuation and investment platform provider Wealthtrac. The survey conducted last month found that almost ...

TAL makes executive appointments

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
TAL has appointed John Hoyle as chief executive officer of its TAL Direct InsuranceLine business and Kent Griffin has joined TAL as chief financial officer. "We at TAL see increased consumer involvement in life insurance in [the] future and we expect ...

AUI hires BDM

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed John Andrews as business development manager for Queensland and Northern Territory. Andrews previously worked at RBS Morgans (previously ABN AMRO Morgans) for a decade across a number of roles including ...

RBS adds to Aus markets team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed John Cummins as co-head of markets for Australia as the firm ramps up its local markets business. Cummins previously worked as head of corporate risk solutions at RBS in Hong Kong. In this role, he will ...

FPA loses chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), has resigned - a decision that took the FPA by surprise. Bloch spent three years as chief executive at the FPA. During this time she led the revamp of its professionalism framework ...

More reform through reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Industry associations and financial services firms should not view the upcoming Henry and Cooper reviews with trepidation but rather as opportunities to improve the current system, said Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Watch the screens today! For at exactly 1130 hours (AEST), the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release a tally of how many of us were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to ...

More mortgage brokers to sell insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
First Aussie John announced he would "shake up" the insurance market, now Mortgage Choice is boosting its presence in life insurance too. Independently-owned mortgage house Mortgage Choice announced the partnership with Lifebroker, which claims to be ...

Sovereign adds two principals

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
Sovereign Investment Research has appointed John Peterson and Helen Murdoch as principals. Peterson previously worked at the Reserve Bank between 1979 and 1983 and then joined Bankers Trust Australia. During his time at Bankers Trust Australia he worked ...