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Home buyers lack basic financial concepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
A new report by Westpac reveals that Australians looking to purchase property are desperate for financial education. Demonstrating the need for financial advice, the Westpac Home Ownership Report found almost half of home buyers did not understand the ...

Rush of advisers sign up before FASEA deadline

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
The final quarter of 2018 saw more than 4000 financial advisers sign up to ASIC's Financial Adviser Register. According to a Rainmaker analysis of ASIC data, an extra 4037 financial advisers registered as authorised representatives to meet FASEA's ...

Former super fund investment lead joins consultancy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
An independent investment consultancy has welcomed the former chief investment officer of Commonwealth Bank Group Super as it looks to expand its Australian operations. Gerard Parlevliet has joined bfinance in the newly-created role of senior strategic ...

First State Super integrates advice, overhauls leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
First State Super has fully integrated its financial advice business, StatePlus. In doing so, the fund has gained a deputy chief executive. In a move aimed at making financial advice accessible for all its members, the $70 billion fund has brought its ...

Super fund restructures leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
An industry superannuation fund managing more than $70 billion has added three C-suite management positions. The move also sees the departure of two executive managers. UniSuper has made several changes to its executive leadership team, including the ...

Industry fund strengthens board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
The former chief investment officer of IOOF has joined the board of a $2.2 billion industry superannuation fund. Stephen Merlicek has joined the board of AvSuper as an independent director. Merlicek was chief investment officer at IOOF for eight years ...

Bravura circles competitor

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
The wealth management software firm has made a proposal to acquire another ASX-listed fintech that could value the latter at up to $170 million. Bravura Solutions submitted a non-binding indicative proposal to acquire all shares of GBST Holdings for ...

UBS small caps team launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
UBS Asset Management's small caps team is kicking off a boutique at Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners with a new unit trust in the works. Stephen Wood, Victor Gomes and David Haddad worked together for eight years on the ...

Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
While the majority of life insurance claims are paid in the first instance (92%), the wait and resolution times vary significantly across providers, a joint study by the regulators found. AMP (eight months) and Westpac (three months) take the longest ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
If the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) very own Financial Aggregates report - released on March 29 - doesn't convince the board to switch from its current "neutral stance" to an interest rate cut very, very soon, by the time it does - and ...