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LIF reforms to drive specialised advice industry

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The advice industry post-Life Insurance Framework reforms is "bright and full of potiential" for those businesses that adopt a more specialised approach, according to Bombora Advice managing director Wayne Handley. Handley said the LIF reforms are compelling ...

NAB appoints new regional advice GM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
NAB Financial Planning appointed a new general manager for South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Adrian De Silva joined NAB in January from Beyond Bank Australia, where he was national manager wealth management and national ...

Fortnum recruits former Centric Wealth chief

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
Fortnum Private Wealth is welcoming a former chief executive of Centric Wealth to its ranks. Glen Castensen joins in an executive position reporting directly to Fortnum managing director Neil Younger. He was most recently a financial services consultant ...

BetaShares and Legg Mason join forces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... industry by broadening the investment options on offer to Australian investors," Sowerby said. BetaShares chief executive Alex Vynokur said the firm is excited to be partnering with one of the world's largest and most experienced asset managers. "Combining ...

MGP partners with fintech for adviser solution

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
Managed Accounts Holdings (MGP) has partnered with an Australian fintech to offer money management solutions to advice practices using its platform. The partnership with Moneysoft will provide advisers working with MGP's platform preferential pricing ...

Challenger flags new Fidante partnership, record profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
In its 2018 first-half results, Challenger highlighted a new European boutique partnership for subsidiary Fidante Partners along with record normalised profit. Challenger explained that Fidante Europe has formed a partnership with US-based specialist ...

Defensive bias hurting SMSF performance: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
Lower weightings to growth assets - particularly international equities - in the average SMSF is dragging down its performance relative to default MySuper indices, according to SuperGuard 360 research. In the 12 months to 31 December 2017, the SG360 ...

Colonial First State awards $385m mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Colonial First State has awarded a $385 million global real estate securities mandate to a global asset management firm. Deutsche Asset Management will oversee the strategy, headed up by the firm's global real estate securities team. The team is led ...

CareSuper appoints investment manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Industry super fund CareSuper has appointed a new investment manager. Frank Russo joins the $13 billion super fund from SILC Group, a boutique strategic adviser and investment solutions provider specialising in wholesale private, commercial and institutional ...

Industry fund on the hunt for investment operations boss

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Following the departure of its investment team's founding member last year, a $43 billion industry fund is recruiting for a chief operating officer, investments - reflecting the goal to significantly boost its assets under management. Cbus created the ...