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ClearView adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
The diversified financial services business has made a raft of changes to its leadership team, including a fresh life insurance lead and new general manager of wealth management. ClearView has today announced a series of key management changes as part ...

Super SA hires former Elders manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Government fund Super SA has appointed a former Elders regional manager to head up its financial advice offering. Allan Ward has been appointed as senior manager financial advice at the fund. He was previously the regional manager for Elders Financial ...

Chant West head of client development to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Chant West's head of client development will retire from the role after about four and a half years at the company. Geoff Peck was responsible for sales and service of new and existing clients at Chant West. He also worked on developing new tools ...

Super fund execs accused of quasi-insider trading

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Liberal MP Tim Wilson has accused executives at super funds of switching options during recent market volatility, in behaviour he likened to insider trading. During questioning of ASIC and APRA at the Standing Committee on Economics, Wilson suggested ...

Chief economist update: A V, a W and an L

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The latest results from the monthly Markit Economics PMI (purchasing managers' index) draws a picture of the three shapes of the economic recovery or otherwise. The letter V. Masked or unmasked, the IHS/Markit flash US composite PMI continues to ...

FS Power50 revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The 2020 FS Power50 has been named, recognising the 50 most influential financial advisers in Australia. A diverse group of advice professionals, the 2020 FS Power50 exemplify the best aspects of the advice industry and how it is set to change. The ...

ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
ASIC chair James Shipton has stepped aside pending the outcome of a review into his remuneration arrangements. Tabling the 2019/20 ASIC annual report today and addressing the Senate Estimates committee, Shipton flagged certain relocation expenses incurred ...

QIC hires former Frontier infrastructure head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
QIC has named a new portfolio manager for its $1.8 billion core infrastructure fund, previously managed by Ross Israel and Matina Papathanasiou. Peter Siapikoudis will manage the QIC Infrastructure Portfolio (QIP). Siapikoudis was most recently a managing ...

Pendal appoints head of institutional

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
Pendal Group has hired an IFM Investors executive director as its new head of institutional for Australia which has $19.8 billion in assets. Nicki Ashton will start in the role on November 9 and report to Pendal's head of Australian distribution ...

AustralianSuper ratings slide at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
AustralianSuper is the latest casualty in Morningstar's ratings rejig, as three options with nearly 86% of its total $180 billion slide to the lowest analyst rating of "bronze". The superannuation fund's $135 billion balanced option, $13.5 billion high ...