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La Trobe makes swathe of new hires

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Credit specialist La Trobe Financial has appointed 25 new staff and expanded to a second floor at its Collins Street headquarters in Melbourne. Fourteen of the 25 new hires, are experienced senior credit analysts and their appointments grow the company's ...

Robots can't read your dreams, advice firm warns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Cigna Wealth has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast and is an authorised credit representative of mortgage broker Australia Finance Group.

Mortgage Choice pulls comparator platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
Home loan broker Mortgage Choice has pulled its online comparator platform, helpmechoose.com.au (HMC), after a strategic review. In the company's full year result announcement, chief executive John Flavell said the distribution tool failed to live ...

IRESS acquires UK fintech businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
IRESS has acquired two financial technology businesses based in the United Kingdom as part of the strategy to develop its operations there. One of the businesses is Proquote Limited, a provider of trading, market data and connectivity solutions, owned ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... gone after each part of the market," he says. "The great thing about the structure is once you've got an account with a broker, there's no more paper work. There's no friction at all and the price gets made around a normal bid/ask spread just like an ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
David Heather has been waiting for managed accounts to take off since 2001. The managedaccounts.com.au chief executive has watched interest grow across the investment spectrum, from large institutions to retail accumulators, but he's never seen any ...

IRESS partners with global broker

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
IRESS will provide its order management system (IOS) to a global independent agency broker which is growing its presence in the Australian market. Olivetree Securities is the Australian operation of Olivetree Financial, an independent agency broker ...

Centrepoint in talks to build ex-insto advice network

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
More advice practices are looking to depart institutionally-aligned dealer groups and join independent licensees, according to Centrepoint Alliance. As Centrepoint managing director John de Zwart put it in a statement, "The days of adviser practices ...

Willis Re appoints global chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Global risk advisory firm and reinsurance broker Willis Group has appointed the global chair of its reinsurance division, Willis Re. In addition to his current roles as chair of Willis Re North America and president of Willis Re, Paddy Jago will now ...

Apogee partners with CoreData to improve client experience

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... will enable Apogee to provide better services to advisers to improve client engagement and advocacy. "Apogee grew up as a broker representative so the core network is very client-centric," he said. "There aren't many advisers who wouldn't say they were ...