Bloomberg has expanded its Women's Buy-Side Network operation to Australia and New Zealand. The organisation, which has chapters in Singapore, India, Hong Kong, and Japan, aims to inspire next-generation investors, elevate female role-models, and grow the pipeline of female leaders in asset management.

Bloomberg's James Bell, who became managing director for the organisation's Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands operations last November, is spearheading the operation, which also includes Susan Buckley, Managing Director, Liquid Markets Group at QIC; Cassandra Crowe, Vice President at T. Rowe Price; Matt Whineray, Chief Executive Officer at New Zealand Superannuation; Sue Brake, Chief Investment Officer at the Future Fund; and Sonya Sawtell-Rickson, Chief Investment Officer at HESTA.

Bell shared his insights into the importance of supporting diversity and how the program has grown over the years. More

Liam Shorte is director, financial planner and specialist SMSF adviser at Verante Financial Planning. He is also a director of the SMSF Association and author of The SMSF Coach. He shared his journey to financial planning with Industry Moves and explains how so much admin and red tape is hurting advisers. More

Lakehouse Capital has created a new program to help people who have left the finance industry get caught up on trends to make the most of their knowledge and skills. Lakehouse senior analyst Pooja Shirangi is spearheading the initiative for Lakehouse; she says they hope it both helps people in the industry as well as encouraging diversity. She shares her thoughts about the program potential with Industry Moves. More

After watching her parents lose money on their investments during the GFC, partly due to poor financial advice, Nicola Chaffe made the decision to shift from accounting to private wealth and financial planning. She also made the tree change from central Melbourne to Bendigo Victoria around the same time, and hasn’t looked back. She is now a director at Venture Financial Advisers and loves working with numbers and people. More

Former Investment Trends research director Recep Peker started up his new business Empower Business Advisory in January this year and has had so much demand already needs to consider hiring people. He spoke to Industry Moves about some of the biggest challenges facing financial advisers and the investment industry.

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