ART appoints BT’s Vincent as chief of retirement
Australian Retirement Trust has appointed BT chief strategy and product officer Kathy Vincent as chief of retirement following a global search.
June 21, 2023
Zurich launches insurance resource amid cost of living pressure
Zurich Financial Services has launched an insurance affordability resource designed to educate customers on how to control their insurance coverage to ease cost-of-living pressures while ensuring they remain protected.
June 21, 2023
‘Built-in failure’ of AI prevents advice take-over
The built-in failure of artificial intelligence in its current state – a reliance on already produced information – means its application in financial advice could face similar struggles, according to Coleman Greig Lawyers consultant Peter Bobbin.
June 21, 2023
Busting through the $2m barrier
Only 7 per cent of Australian businesses hit $2 million in turnover annually. The author of a book studying what makes these businesses tick found several points advice where firms can take advantage.
June 20, 2023
Performance test not a major challenge for ESG-focused choice products: UniSuper
Sustainability-focused superannuation funds should ask themselves hard questions if they cannot beat the federal government’s performance test benchmark, according to a senior manager at UniSuper, with choice products likely to soon be included in the test.
June 20, 2023
‘Key to allowing this growth to continue’: Why corporatising practices has become invaluable
The corporatisation of advice practices has led to firms scaling up to create streamlined, efficient businesses. For one practice, this has even led to a revenue increase of 40 per cent.
June 19, 2023
How can more Australians get the advice they need?
Even with significant regulatory red tape reductions that could reduce the cost of advice, the price will still be higher than some Australians are able to pay, Otivo CEO Paul Feeney writes. Digital advice providers will be essential to addressing that, but that must come with the same obligations and liabilities as human advisers.
June 19, 2023
Schroders appoints CIO as CEO
Schroders Australia has appointed Simon Doyle as CEO, replacing Sam Hallinan.
June 19, 2023
Former Lonsec executive director joins Fidelity
Fidelity International has appointed former Lonsec executive director Lukasz de Pourbaix as global cross asset specialist.
June 19, 2023
Allianz Retire+ adds ex-MLC Wealth, Unisuper and FEAL executives to advisory board
Allianz Retire+ has appointed three former industry CEOs from MLC Wealth, UniSuper and the Fund Executives Association Ltd to its Retirement Advisory Board.
June 19, 2023
‘A bonafide profession’: Australia’s advice evolution
The current advice model is now widely accepted and is not controversial in our industry, but it is not long ago that it seemed radical. In light of the how the Quality of Advice Review will usher in the next evolutionary stage of financial advice, Dimensional Australia executive chair Glenn Crane writes advice has still marked its territory as a profession.
June 16, 2023
