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YBR robo-advice to make Celebrity Apprentice debut

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Yellow Brick Road's robo-advice tool, Guru, will be launched to the public via a Celebrity Apprentice Australia challenge. The Guru "pilot" was unveiled in June, and since then over 50 YBR practices are able to use the service. "Our network has been ...

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
On a quiet afternoon in 2000, Pru Bennett was sitting with the three other partners of proxy advisory firm Corporate Governance International, wondering how they were going to jumpstart the business. "Gee," she remembers thinking, "We just need a few ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
The Wall Street Journal's Financial Inclusion Challenge, supported by the MetLife Foundation, has been recognised by The Asia Society in Hong Kong. The Challenge is a global project launched in Asia to recognise innovative, sustainable, scalable strategies ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
A Macquarie executive responsible for setting up the group's global investments division in Canada has left to join a boutique funds management firm. Perth-based NWQ Capital Management has appointed Stuart McClure as managing director. McClure has over ...

OneVue close to turning profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
OneVue has almost doubled its revenue in the last year, helping to reduce its net loss from $5.23 million in 2014 to $220,000 in the year to 30 June 2015. Total revenue of $25.42 million for the reporting period represents an increase of 92% from $13.21 ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Mark Wills once managed to play rugby, go to university, have a job and meet his future wife within a single year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...

Financial advice is a boring game

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Approached as a game, financial advice is boring and unappealing for prospective clients, argued PortfolioConstruction Forum chief finology officer Dr. David Lazenby. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney ...

Advisers need to collaborate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
The financial advice industry depends on collaboration between planners, according to Complete Financial Balance principal Brendan Cox. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney, Cox - whose company won the 2014 ...

SIV opens door to China for fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
The revised Significant Investor Visa (SIV) will undoubtedly bring benefits to parts of the economy in need of investment but also knock-on opportunities for fund managers specialising in the scheme to get access to investments in China. The new rules ...