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Advice not yet a real profession: Kell

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... to standards, but we certainly don't have a professional association of the sort that you get in other sectors such as medicine," he added. Kell referred to financial advice as a "relatively new industry" that emerged in the 1980s. He noted that a key ...

Planners divided on mental health advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... Award nominee, Johns has completed a Master of Disability Policy and Practice from the Flinders University School of Medicine. He researched the specific issues people with mental health and disabilities face when dealing with Centrelink, superannuation ...

Robotics, AI ETF set to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... vehicles and driverless cars, for example, are likely to be prevalent in the next 20 to 30 years, along with robots in medicine performing operations, he said. The fund was originally launched in Europe two-and-a-half years ago in partnership with ROBO ...

Executive hires at SCOR Global Life

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... effective next week. In addition to running his own private practices, Cummins' work focuses on evidence-based preventative medicine mainly around screening and managing cardiovascular diseases and cancer. He is the founder and principal of Executive ...

Industry giant retires

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
Celebrated financial services figure Barry Lambert is retiring from the Class board of directors. Lambert, aged 70, said he is retiring to concentrate on campaign work for greenlight.support, an advocacy group which lobbies for patients to have access ...

BT health score helping claimants back to work

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... health support experts. The program is based on research from the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). Their research suggests that, generally speaking, work is good for ...

AMP gets court date for China fund appeal

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... China Merchants Bank, China Minsheng Banking Corp, China Vanke Cok, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine. Despite LIM Advisors' wind-up proposal - made on the basis that AGF is "not fit for purpose" - AMP Capital is urging unitholders ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... advantage of the shorter-term opportunities that arise in emerging markets' currencies as the Fed keeps applying the same medicine of monetary forbearance, which can generate short-term boosts to asset prices," Fine said.

PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... life risk mutual offering. Under this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting, law and engineering) can "share in the profits of the insurance that they buy" through financial advisers, according ...

Colonial First State appoints independent super director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Kaldor Public Art Projects; a member of the advisory council at UNSW Medicine; an advisory finance committee member at Sisters of Charity; a member of Chief Executive Women (CEW) and an ambassador for ...