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ANZ changes advice model, cuts Prime Access

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... announced it will change the way it provides ongoing financial advice to customers via ANZ Financial Planning. As of today, the Prime Access financial advice service will no longer be offered to new customers and will be phased out for existing customers ...

NZ$5 trillion investor group supports Christchurch Call

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... At a summit in Paris attended by major tech companies and governments, the Christchurch Call was launched by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron. The Christchurch Call outlines voluntary commitments that governments ...

CountPlus acquires stake in advice firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
CountPlus has acquired a stake in a financial advice firm as Prime Financial Group offloads its minority interest. CountPlus acquired a 20% interest in Rundles Financial Planning, as well as a 40% stake in accounting firm Rundles Prime. Total consideration ...

Former super fund investment lead joins consultancy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... industry, including the SelectingSuper 'Industry Service Award' in 2017. He is currently a non-executive director of Prime Super, La Trobe Financial and the CBHS Health Fund, and volunteers on various committees of the Association of Superannuation ...

New Zealand investors call for action after attacks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... been severely damaged." The groups' calls are being backed up by the Australian and New Zealand governments. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a press conference last week: "We are working on new laws that would seek to apply criminal ...

Investors raise alarm on Facebook

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... now, and how deeply recent events are being felt, especially in New Zealand. In the days following the attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said of Facebook: "They are the publisher, not the postman. There cannot be a case of all profit ...

Advice firm hires chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... management and accounting firm has appointed a new chair as its incumbent retires. Tim Carroll will start as Prime Financial Group's non-executive, independent chair on March 1, after serving on the board for three years. He was Village Roadshow Corporation's ...

Prime Value recruits former super fund chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Prime Value Asset Management recruited former Christian Super chief executive Peter Murphy to its client services team as a strategic adviser. The appointment is off the back of the boutique fund manager expanding its institutional arm via several alternative ...

Wealth group acquires asset manager stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... Were Asset Management. Ferres will join Aura's wealth management investment committee. Thomas was previously a director of prime services for APAC at Barclays and worked at UBS and Merrill Lynch. In May 2017, Chris Faddy joined Aura from Vantage Point ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Numbeo's 2019 Cost of Living Index. Overall, Australia is the 17th most expensive country to live in. When the group lobbied Prime Minister Scott Morrison for change shortly after his appointment it was told current indexation arrangements would ...