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Former UBS exec joins Celeste

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
The former executive director and head of emerging companies research at UBS is joining Celeste Funds Management. Martin Byers specialised in emerging companies at UBS since joining in 2006. Prior to that, he was a senior equity analyst at the Royal ...

Impact investment in real-time

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
Retail and sophisticated investors can now view live Australian impact investment opportunities through one public portal. From today the Impact Investing Hub is running its Current Deals Library, which lists live impact investment opportunities and ...

Impact investment in real-time

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
Retail and sophisticated investors can now view live Australian impact investment opportunities through one public portal. From today the Impact Investing Hub is running its Current Deals Library, which lists live impact investment opportunities and ...

ASIC toughens MDA suitability rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
Platform providers and financial advisers offering a managed discretionary account (MDA) service should be mindful of the regulator cracking down on new suitability review requirements, a legal expert warns. Presenting at today's Financial Standard ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... confident consumers are about the economy and their own personal finances, the more likely they are to spend. With this in mind, it is easy to see how this index of consumer attitudes gives insight to the direction of the economy. But note that changes ...

DomaCom and ASIC reach agreement on retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... long as they wish. They will also be provided the right to repurchase the equity that has been sold if they change their mind.

Super funds and weapons of mass destruction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
Warren Buffett may have called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction" but an increasing number of super funds are using them as a cost-saving measure. Milliman head of fund advisory services Michael Armitage told delegates at the Australian ...

Financial stress devastating Australian lives: Research

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Australians are turning to drugs and alcohol to manage the symptoms of financial stress according to the latest research. Details of a survey published by start-up Financial Mindfulness, based on CoreData research, show that almost one-in-three Australians ...

Adviser education renews ethics focus

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
Financial advisers will see a raft of new courses around ethics and integrity as these issues come to the fore ahead of the code of ethics to be introduced from the industry's new regulatory body. Ramping up efforts in ethics education is a bold move ...

Centrepoint Alliance seeks new MD, records strong FY17 profit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
Centrepoint Alliance is on the hunt for a new managing director and chief executive following the resignation of John de Zwart. Announced today in tandem with the group's annual results, de Zwart will leave the company in November after four-and-a-half ...