![]() Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019 Mark 2 August 2019 in your personal memoirs as the day Australia's economic trajectory changed forever. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019 A financial advice revolution is about to land on our doorstep and it has nothing to do with FASEA or the Royal Commission. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018 Financial Standard's latest adviser survey on the adoption of managed accounts provides key insights on why the industry is enjoying dramatic growth. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018 The banking and financial services Royal Commission is now in full swing electrifying audiences on a daily if not hourly basis. The irony is that it's not the behaviour of the banks causing the nuclear angst, but that of their financial advice licensee ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017 Nudging managed accounts into the mainstream is recognition of the win-win proposition they offer: not only do they provide a simpler and easier way to administer improved client outcomes but they add value to the advisory businesses using them. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014 Four in five financial advisers believe that managed accounts will either retain or increase their current popularity over the next three years. Alex Dunnin, executive director of research at Rainmaker Group, gets to the bottom of this emerging trend ... Read more PAGE: 1 |
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TIM TOWNSEND
PARTNER & PRIVATE WEALTH ADVISER
TOWNSEND COBAIN PTY LTD
PARTNER & PRIVATE WEALTH ADVISER
TOWNSEND COBAIN PTY LTD
Tim Townsend is a people person at heart, and using managed accounts he has more time to do what he loves most - engaging with clients. But that doesn't mean just any solution will do. Eliza Bavin writes.