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IMAP ensuring greater representation for MDAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
Ahead of new regulatory requirements the Institute of Managed Account Professionals will establish a sub-committee to represent the interests of managed discretionary account providers. Commencing in March, the MDA Providers Forum will be an invitation-only ...

Impact Investing Australia chief to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
As the impact investing market continues to gain momentum, Impact Investing Australia will farewell its chief executive. Daniel Madhavan is leaving the organisation after three years to explore new opportunities in the impact sector, to be replaced ...

Zurich grows life risk distribution team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
Zurich Financial Services has boosted the size of its life risk sales team with a key promotion and eleven appointments across the country. Nathan Taggart has been promoted to the role of head of strategic development and joins the distribution leadership ...

Ignition Wealth launches goals-based investing

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
Ignition Wealth will launch a goals-based investment offering. The company, which received financial backing from planning pioneer Barry Lambert last year, has appointed SiResearch to provide adaptive asset allocation built around goals which have a ...

Act like a professional to be a professional: Slattery

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
To regain the trust of Australians the SMSF sector must maintain the standards expected and demanded of professionals and to think otherwise is delusional. Opening the 2017 SMSF Association National Conference in Melbourne, chief executive Andrea Slattery ...

Bentham hires AMP Capital analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
Bentham Asset Management appointed a senior analyst specialising in bank capital securities. Linden Smith joins Bentham from AMP Capital, where he was a senior credit analyst in the firm's credit research team. In his role Smith was also the main port ...

Industry giant retires

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
Celebrated financial services figure Barry Lambert is retiring from the Class board of directors. Lambert, aged 70, said he is retiring to concentrate on campaign work for greenlight.support, an advocacy group which lobbies for patients to have access ...

A world of distrust: Edelman

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
More than half of Australia's wider population distrusts institutions including government, business, media and non-governmental organisations. Yet more than 50% of Australia's informed public - those aged 25 to 64 who have a college education and are ...

JANA executive director retires

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
A long-serving executive director at JANA retired in December and took a directorship at a $7 billion industry super fund. David Holston, who worked at JANA for 17 years, was also an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia director from 1996 ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
They've tried to take away his thumbs from twitter when he was Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump. Still, he prevailed and from 20 January 2017, Donald Trump - the 45th president of the United States - became known in twitterland as President Trump or @POTUS. ...