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Group insurance inaction is "robbery": Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... insurance premiums is equivalent to theft, according to today's life insurance parliamentary inquiry. Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services chair Steve Irons said the responsibility shouldn't fall solely on the individual ...

AZ NGA acquires Wealthmed Australia

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... growth. "AZ NGA will make capital available to the Wealthmed team in order to execute their expansion enabling further medical joint ventures," Barrett said. Wealthmed principle Scott Guildford said: "It's great to be able to secure our futures using ...

Netwealth expands managed accounts offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... managed account service - an increase of 24.5%. Overall, Netwealth has amassed $756.5 million in the same period. Netwealth joint managing director Matt Heine said the growth reflected the success of its managed account and platform technology. "We've ...

Big tech leads fintech optimism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... offerings, such as the Vanguard Advisor platform, which had $47 billion in assets under management as of the end of 2016," a joint statement on the report said. "Meanwhile, regulatory approaches to financial innovation are diverging in the US, Europe ...

Financial services leaders push for marriage equality

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... we proudly support marriage equality." Former managing director of J.P. Morgan Janine Middleton, who personally signed a joint letter to the Prime Minister in support of civil marriage equality in March, added that all employees should have the opportunity ...

MBS Insurance welcomes two partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... joined the firm as an insurance adviser and is currently a senior adviser at Pitcher Partners Sydney Insurance Services, a joint venture partner of MBS Insurance. McCullough joined as a para planner and went on to become a risk adviser before being promoted ...

Fiducian flags advice acquisitions in report

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... bringing the total to $2.14 billion. The group now has 67 authorised representatives across 44 Australian offices, and in a joint statement chair Robert Bucknell and managing director Indy Singh said future acquisitions "should assist our future revenue ...

Complex operations leaving life customers confused

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... insured for, a public hearing found. TAL group chief executive and managing director Brett Clark told the Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services today how frustrating it is to modernise an industry that's facing greater ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is the third largest online broker in Japan. "We now have an online brokerage joint venture in China as well, meaning we concentrate on equities, futures, mutual funds and FX trading capabilities," Matsumoto ...

Ripoll to help victims of rogue advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and borrow money to buy off-the-plan property. Ripoll, who chaired the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services, said the issue of remediating bad advice has been a passion of his ...