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Six Park eyes advisers, appoints head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
Six Park has hired a former AustralianSuper and BT Financial Group business development and partnerships team member, as it looks to tap into adviser groups, platforms and other B2B channels. Ha-Dieu Ford has joined its management team as the head of ...

NAB Private Wealth bolsters executive team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
After losing Anthony Healy in March and Jason Murray earlier this month, NAB Private Wealth has announced new five appointments to its executive team in a new structure. The appointments will report directly to JBWere chief executive and leader for ...

Perpetual top brass cop six-month pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams and chair Tony D'Aloisio are taking a 20% cut on their base salaries for six months from July 1, as the company also shrinks variable remuneration company-wide in response to COVID-19. The rest of the group executive ...

AMP advisers low priority for ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
Senator Deborah O'Neil has revealed she was told by ASIC that AMP's Buyer of Last Resort (BOLR) agreements being altered and subsequently slashing the value of advice businesses was not a priority for the regulator. In a letter to the chair of the Parliamentary ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
Spaceship chief executive Andrew Moore says its managed investments business has been the "single, strongest" source of growth for its $300 million superannuation fund. Spaceship, which started out as a superannuation fund in 2017, added a managed funds ...

FASEA brings back remote tests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
As Melbourne has returned to a strict lockdown to battle a second wave of COVID-19, FASEA has responded by bringing back remote tests. "Following the reimposition of Stage 3 stay at home restrictions for metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire and ...

Insurance premiums soar at Qantas Super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
Customers of Qantas Super will see their insurance premiums rise substantially come 1 August 2020 now that the super fund has officially switched insurers to MetLife. The fund blamed a range of factors for the increase, mostly surrounding the effects ...

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The United Kingdom has followed the script dictated by the coronavirus pandemic in much of the world. On March 23, the government imposed strict lockdown measures, giving "bobbies" power to fine people leaving their homes for "non-essential" reasons. ...

Equity Trustees nabs new director

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
Equity Trustees has nabbed an industry super fund's interim chief investment officer as an independent director on two of its superannuation boards. George Zielinski has been appointed as an independent director on the boards of Equity Trustees ...

Qantas Super awards insurance mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
MLC Life has lost the Qantas Super mandate with the super fund announcing a new mandate. Qantas Super announced MetLife has been awarded the insurance mandate, effective July 1, 2020. The fund said it was pleased to welcome the global insurer, saying ...