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Education excellence recognised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... professional development via continuing education and making a difference in her local community through the practical application of knowledge and expertise. "Felicity has a refreshing approach to education, proving it is not just about study but true ...

Quant manager seeks to unscramble cryptocurrency dictionary

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
A $160 billion global quantitative investment manager is supporting research that aims to determine whether cryptocurrency prices are predictable. Using natural language processing, the Oxford-Man Institute research is attempting to identify tradeable ...

Zurich launches new adviser portal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... for advisers. The Zurich Adviser Portal gives advisers a single login to access underwriting quotes, track client application progress in real time and request updates to policy details like address and payment methods. Advisers will now be able to get ...

Managed accounts provider ramps up tech strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... apparent that an in-house approach to front end development is the preferred approach for the future," he said. Using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), existing databases and back-end software will remain in place to create a front-end across ...

TAL refutes duty of good faith breaches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... claims where either the information presented at the time of the claim was inconsistent with that presented at policy application, or where a claim was made very early in the life of the policy. TAL said claims made very early in the life of the policy ...

AMP defends charging dead clients

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... it did not assume members who were delinked from a corporate superannuation plan were smokers, saying there is no application of smoker rates. This is despite AMP group executive wealth solutions and chief customer officer Paul Sainsbury telling the ...

FPA award finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
The Financial Planning Association of Australia announced the 2018 finalists for its suite of awards, to be presented at its annual Professionals Congress in November. Vying for the title of FPA Certified Financial Planner Professional of the Year is ...

ASIC appeal convicts former CBA planner

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
ASIC has successfully helped convict a former CBA financial planner on appeal. ASIC, together with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), appealed the sentence of former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser Ricky David Gillespie. ...

Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... participated in the personal financial advice market, these [FoFA] provisions applied directly," it noted. "But no wider application of the premise for these FoFA amendments (that remuneration affects conduct) to general remuneration arrangements within ...

Hayne admonishes ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... Worryingly, ASIC also has a preference for "easily won cases" - and does not do enough to resolve grey areas in the application of the law. ASIC defended itself by saying its approach to enforcement was due to its limited resources. "Of course ASIC ...