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Mercer appoints head of superannuation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
Mercer has named its new head of superannuation for the Pacific region. Darren Stevens joins Mercer from Bravura Solutions, where he was director, product management and strategy for five years. Before that his roles have included Bravura's head of ...

Former FPA chief steps down from board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The former chief executive of the Financial Planning Association of Australia has farewelled the industry body, stepping down from the board to make way for a new director. Completing his term as a board director yesterday, Mark Rantall was FPA chief ...

IOOF boosts flagship platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
IOOF is increasing efficiencies for financial advisers through a raft of enhancements to its leading retail platform, including non-lapsing binding nominations. Advisers using the IOOF Pursuit platform no longer need to update binding nominations every ...

Institutions suffer financial adviser drain

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
About one in 10 financial advisers swapped their licensee in 2016-17 - and 56% of these either stayed in or migrated to non-institutional options, according to Rainmaker research. Another third of those 2100 advisers migrated to institutional licensees ...

Costs fundamental to IOOF advice growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
IOOF flagged cost management as crucial to the success of its financial advice-led strategy, one that recorded inflows of $1.2 billion in the first half of FY18 and is about to acquire ANZ Wealth. Releasing the company's 1H18 results this morning, Kelaher ...

Advisers flock to IOOF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
More than 40 financial advisers joined IOOF in the 12 months to 31 December 2017, adding $1.6 billion in funds under advice. In an update provided to the ASX outlining the group's funds under management, administration, advice and supervision, IOOF ...

ANZ Wealth tests AI-driven underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
ANZ Wealth is exploring artificial intelligence opportunities to improve its underwriting processes. The collaboration with the Advanced Analytics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS AAi) will use machine learning and big data to develop ...

Financial Standard's top stories of 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
What were Financial Standard subscribers reading in 2017? Check out the most click-worthy stories of this year. The biggest stories of 2017 spanned new super funds, major strategic partnerships, landmark ASIC investigations, long-serving industry executives ...

AFA to launch investigation into adviser misconduct

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers has confirmed it will launch its own investigation into why three of its members entered into enforceable undertakings with ASIC in as many days. While AFA chief executive Phil Kewin said he would not discuss the ...

ANZ Wealth business governance head departs for Vanguard

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
ANZ Wealth's head of business governance has taken on a new role at Vanguard after 16 years with the bank. Ian Dent joins Vanguard as senior compliance manager. In this position, a Vanguard spokesperson said, Dent will "lead Vanguard Australia's compliance ...