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Profiles, moves, and perspectives from across Australia's financial advice and investment industry.
Global X adds Head of Investment Strategy ahead of Australian expansion
New York-based ETF provider Global X, with US$40 billion ($53.3 billion) in assets under management across more than 80 products, is preparing to launch in the...
Financials push market higher, Fed meeting ahead, Gor leaves Pendal
The Australian share market has remained remarkably resilient despite the broadening sanctions against Russia and greater economic implications, with...
"Seeing their anxiety wash away" - why Ty Cockle loves advice
Ty Cockle, chief executive officer of Financial Foundations Australia (FFA) initially wanted to be a teacher, and trained to be one, but it was difficult to...
Douglass sticks to his guns after horror 2021
After a hellish close to 2021 that saw the departure of one of Magellan’s largest institutional clients, the pressure will be on for Hamish Douglass to...
Charlie Munger: Crypto creators 'thinking about themselves'
Known for his clever wit and open frankness, investment guru Charlie Munger, reinforced his value style of investing by comparing today’s markets with...
Eleece Quilliam discusses the power of communication
If the financial advice industry needed a passionate advocate, it only has to call on Eleece Quilliam. The National Manager of Invesco Consulting in Australia...
Don't take blue chips for granted: Marks
Today’s investors are “riding for a fall,” according to Oaktree Capital founder Howard Marks. Markets could well be in for a repeat of the...
What it takes to be a top fund manager
Key characteristics which shone out in the winners of the top categories at this year’s Zenith Investment Partners awards were a pioneering spirit and...
Matt Rady's big new job
Having left the ambitious specialist retirement start-up of the Allianz Insurance group, Allianz Retire+, in July, Matt Rady was this week named as CEO of BT...
Mota promises a new, digital-first IOOF
Renato Mota, IOOF CEO, believes that advice is changing – and that IOOF must change with it. Key to that will be bringing digital and...
Pikoulas heads for greener pastures
Pikoulas departs Lipman Burgon as Pengana hires for high conviction. Covid-19 movement restrictions don’t appear to have restricted much job movement...
Douglass confronts new world order
In conversation with Ticky Fullerton, business editor-at-large for “The Australian,” Magellan co-founder Hamish Douglass said that two major...
Lockdown means a greater need to reach out
Rob Prugue, well-known investment manager and a former regional chief executive of Lazard Asset Management, has called on the financial services industry to...
Praemium's new direction
It’s been a slow week for wealth appointments, though one can imagine that Sydney’s lockdown – and the uncertainty around when it will end...