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CBA promoted Nguyen to keep him away from clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has heard that the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) promoted financial planner Don Nguyen, despite allegations of fraud. Speaking at the inquiry Commonwealth ...

Aberdeen AM appoints head of APAC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Aberdeen Asset Management has promoted its head of the Australian fixed income team to head of Asia-Pacific fixed income business. Victor Rodriguez will head Aberdeen's Asia-Pacific fixed income arm and will relocate to Singapore at the end of 2014. ...

Bracks back on Cbus board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
Steve Bracks has been reappointed as chair of the Cbus board of directors, effective as of today. Bracks was revoked from his position as consul general in New York by Foreign Minister-elect Julie Bishop this week. Bracks was appointed to the position ...

Bracks to return to funds management

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Former Cbus chair Steve Bracks will be looking for opportunities in the Australian funds management sector after Foreign Minister-elect Julie Bishop revoked his position as consul general in New York. Bracks was appointed to the position on May 17 ...

AMP bolsters corporate super business

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
AMP Financial Services has made a series of senior appointments to its corporate super business in an effort to cope with major regulatory change and changing customer preferences. AMP Corporate Super leadership team will have now six directors that ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
The Australian share market has rallied on the back of positive manufacturing data from the United States, undeterred by a weaker economic outlook from the federal government. The Australian share market was 0.7 per cent higher in early afternoon trade ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... created, along comes China. New York Fed president Bill Dudley remarked in his speech at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 2013 Annual General Meeting in Basel, Switzerland that "financial stability is a necessary prerequisite for an effective ...

Asian LGBT advice firm headhunts Aussie planners

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
Hong Kong-based Financial Partners, the advisory firm behind Asia's first LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) wealth management business, is actively recruiting Australian financial planners to the specialist division. Financial Partners has ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Australian stocks are lower at noon, with all the major sectors falling amid broad-based selling. The local market opened lower as investors took their cues from a weak finish on Wall Street after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggested the ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community represents a multi-trillion dollar opportunity for wealth managers and advisers, according to estimates from advisers specialising in the area. The campaign to legalise gay marriage in Australia ...