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MGP flags global search for COO and head of product

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
In an investor update Managed Accounts Holdings (MGP) noted it is looking to fill the budgeted positions of chief operating officer and head of product, with the latter expected to finalise in February. MGP explained the COO role will be based in Melbourne ...

BTIM chief retires, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
The chief executive of BT Investment Management Australia is retiring and a former First State Super executive is taking over. BTIM Australia announced the retirement of Michael Bargholz, effective 30 July 2018, and former First State Super chief investment ...

Group insurance dominates life insurance channels: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
The majority of people canvassed in Financial Standard's weekly poll reveal they have life insurance via their superannuation fund. About 60% of respondents said life insurance was available via their employer or super fund. Almost one-in-three (32%) ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Australian billionaires amassed a $115.4 billion fortune in FY17, representing a 140% jump since the Global Financial Crisis, according to an Oxfam analysis. The Oxfam Growing Gulf Between Work and Wealth paper found Australia's richest 1% had more ...

Phone leads life insurance sales: Roy Morgan

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
Using the telephone was the most popular means of purchasing life insurance policies in the year to November, the latest Roy Morgan survey shows. One-quarter (24.7%) of the 7632 consumers polled in Roy Morgan's Single Source survey rang the company ...

Life insurance consumers shun financial advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
Australians are increasingly relying on the internet and digital devices to purchase life insurance instead of financial advisers, a new study from NobleOak shows. Almost half (43.6%) of the 1000 respondents in NobleOak and Pureprofile's 2017 life insurance ...

Citi veteran joins forces with listed equities manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
A long-serving Citi employee has become the deputy chief executive of a listed Australian equities investment company as part of the latter's succession plan. Newly-minted Milton Corporation deputy chief Brendan O'Dea joined Citi in 1995 as an internal ...

Eaton Vance subsidiary appoints COO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
A subsidiary of Eaton Vance specialising in responsible investing is welcoming a new chief operating officer. Anne L. Richardson joins Calvert Research and Management from Cambridge Associates, where she was managing director and chief operating officer ...

Powerwrap, OneVue vets join MGP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 JAN 2018
Managed Account Holdings is welcoming a former Powerwrap sales lead and a former head of compliance from OneVue as it continues to capitalise on its acquisition of Linear. Richard Carr has joined MGP as a business development manager to aid the growth ...

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 ...