EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER

Financial planning

NAB Asset Servicing has won the custody mandate for HIP....

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Financial planning

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

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Financial planning

Trust Company seeks to leverage regional presence....

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People & Products

Former Commonwealth Bank executive general manager David Hancock has signed on with Firstfolio as its new chief executive....

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Life/Risk

For insurers to survive and thrive they must pursue a program of continuous and customer-led innovation, writes Duncan West....

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Financial planning

Asteron Life has updated its group risk strategy to focus on the corporate, superannuation fund and platform provider market as it also looks to leverage its relationship...

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Financial planning

A number of recent high profile executive departures reflect the current economic environment and cost-cutting measures being undertaken across financial services and ban...

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Financial planning

Financial services industry stalwart and founder of Count Financial, Barry Lambert, was this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award at the Money Management/Lo...

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Financial planning

The Colonial First State restructure sees Brian Bissaker depart with the separation of advice and changed reporting lines....

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Financial planning

A significant restructure of Colonial First State will see Brian Bissaker leave the company with Marianne Perkovic and Linda Elkins filling key roles....

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Superannuation

The Government needs to take a more demographic-centric approach to superannuation policy by adopting a soft-compulsion system for persons under the age of 40, according ...

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Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched an interactive website that aims to map the changing goals of Australia in real-time....

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Financial planning

ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...

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Financial planning

The independence of accountants who align their businesses with financial planning dealer groups could be called into question, according to RSM Bird Cameron principal Pe...

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Life/Risk

MLC has improved MLC Insurance and MLC Insurance (Super) with a number of product enhancements, and updates to their insurance writing programs....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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