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Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Commonwealth Bank is extending its domestic and family violence support program due to customer need, with its helpline receiving about 90,000 calls in the first month. Initially launched as a 12-month pilot in November 2017, the CBA Domestic and Family ...

SuperConcepts searches for new CTO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
AMP subsidiary SuperConcepts confirmed it is on the hunt for a new chief technology officer. Incumbent CTO Kurt Groeneveld will exit the business the end of 2018. Prior to joining SuperConcepts, he was the chief executive of Supercorp, a superannuation ...

NAB recruits customer executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
National Australia Bank is bolstering its private banking business by appointing its second customer executive. Margot Faraci will commence the newly-created role of NAB Partners customer executive for the northern region in October 2018. She will be ...

Former Australian Unity executive joins advice licensee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
A financial advice dealer group has added its third former Australian Unity executive this month. Former Australian Unity Personal Financial Services chief executive Steve Davis has joined Infocus Wealth Management in the newly created role of chief ...

Centrepoint Alliance bolsters distribution team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The former head of advice partnerships and membership at the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has linked with Centrepoint Alliance. Jason Tattershall has been appointed as the second growth manager at the advice services group, taking ...

Sunsuper appoints former AustralianSuper executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
Sunsuper has added a former AustralianSuper group executive with marketing expertise to its board at a time as the $56 billion industry fund continues its merger spree. Georgina Williams has been appointed to Sunsuper's board. She has more than ...

Pressure mounts on regional advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
The already limited availability of financial advice in regional and rural Australia is at risk of being further undermined as the fallout from the Royal Commission continues. An analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register (FAR) shows 4700 financial ...

ASIC bans Queensland adviser, suspends licence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
ASIC has put a four-year ban on a Queensland adviser for failing to act in his clients' best interests while providing advice on self-managed superannuation funds. James Cribb allegedly advised in a manner that was likely to benefit his own SMSF administration ...

Commercial property manager hires sales executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
Australian commercial real estate debt and investment manager MaxCap Group has appointed a distribution director based in Singapore. Chris van Beek joins from UBS Asset Management where he was executive director of real estate and private markets for ...

Queensland industry funds merge

HARRISON WORLEY AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
Sunsuper is set to merge with a $2.5 billion industry fund in early 2019. In a joint statement, Sunsuper and AustSafe Super have signed a Successor Fund Transfer Deed. Both established 30 years ago, AustSafe is the super fund for rural and regional ...