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Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
The Future Fund announced a raft of changes to its investment team as it looks to grow over the next decade. Head of property Barry Brakey is leaving the Future Fund after 10 years. He led the development of a quality property portfolio with exposures ...

Industry responds to Dover shutdown

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
The Association of Financial Advisers will lobby ASIC and the Federal Government to extend the transition period provided to Dover Financial Advisers' authorised representatives in the wake of the dealer group's shock closure. On Friday evening ...

AMP Capital appoints new chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
AMP Capital has named Vanessa Wallace's successor a month after she resigned as the board chair. Wallace is being replaced by the chair of AMP's responsible entity and trustee boards, John Nesbitt. Nesbitt was previously Suncorp Bank's chief ...

Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
A room full of finance professionals tackled tricky case studies at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Forum in Sydney yesterday afternoon. Technical services professionals from IOOF and BT Financial Group presented case studies based on two ...

Senior insto sales manager at Schroders retires

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
Schroders' senior institutional sales manager is retiring from the industry after more than a decade with the firm. Mark Bourgeois joined Schroders in 2007. Before that, he was vice president of institutional sales and investment services at Merrill ...

Netwealth boosts class action involvement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
In its latest round of platform enhancements, Netwealth has added the ability for investors to participate in class actions. As of this month, Netwealth has made available information on open class actions within the platform's Corporate Actions ...

Chapmans passes on blockchain investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
An ASX-listed diversified investment company has passed up the final opportunity to invest in a US-based blockchain securities trading platform where it had contractual rights to invest up to about $5.3 million (USD 4 million). In February, Chapmans ...

Super protection policy needs improvement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... for super funds to contact existing members to notify them of the withdrawal of insurance after 13 months of inactivity. "WIS further recommends that the 13 month period be extended to 16 months to avoid penalising women on parental leave and that the ...

Advice fintech reshuffles leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
The managing director of an ASX-listed financial advice fintech is stepping aside and an interim chief executive has been appointed. Intiger announced managing director Mark Fisher will hand over leadership of the software developer to global head of ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
The sharp turnaround in the All Ordinaries index from the 2018 low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 ...