InvestTech 2021 Virtual Conference - Connecting Clients to Advice
InvestTech 2021 will showcase the technology developments which are transforming advice and portfolio management services.
This year we are running InvestTech as a series of one hour webinars over 5 days from 12 noon to 1pm featuring 2 presentations each day.
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InvestTech 2021
The theme for InvestTech 2021 is "Connecting Clients to Advice
Yes technology can be used to enhance a strong, trust-based relationship with your clients, and to support your time with them(virtual or face to face).
Your client relationships are built on emotions and trust, so how can we use technology in a personalised way that is reliable, informative, timely and tells them what they need to know as simply as possible to reinforce that relationship?
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Conference Program 6th - 10th Dec 2021
Monday 6th December 2021
12.00pm Opening Address by Toby Potter - IMAP Chair and introducing our conference MC Peter Worn
The point where Advicetech meets InvestTech is highlighted in this insightful presentation by Andrew Whelan CEO WealthO2
Andrew will make the case that the current advice value chain is broken. He will also discuss and demonstrate some game changing, future state technology to illustrate his point.
What you will learn:
Why the advice technology and platform model is broken and has been for some time.
Whether or not the age of technology is critical.
If the current landscape should change, what it should look like?
What platforms and advice technology providers must be doing right now to support current and future adviser challenges.
How artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to put advisers in a hundred rooms at once.
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12.40pm Digital realisation of an advice practice – using social media effectively presented by Nicole Smith - Socialisd
Nicole discusses how financial advisers can use social media to grow their business, and talks about strategies and approaches to telling better stories, educating clients, engaging with clients & converting leads to clients.
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Tuesday 7th December 2021
12.00pm Stuart Alsop of FE fundInfo presents on Tools for Advisers to have engaging ESG conversations with clients
ESG data facilitates adviser conversations with clients, and while the focus by product issuers has been to get ESG products to the market, financial advisers need to be given the tools to talk about these funds with their clients. FE fundinfo’s session will cover the following topics: • Where ESG is heading in Australia • A view from Europe • How advisers can look at ESG from a portfolio level rather than a fund / holding level
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12.30pm The Future of Direct Investing presented by Erica Vlavianos of Finclear and Andrew Jones from ASX
.Finclear is an Australian fintech company providing trading infrastructure, services and technology solutions that support the complete wealth management lifecycle. Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) operates, the Australian Securities Exchange and is one of the world's top 15 listed exchange groups.
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Wednesday 8th December 2021
Brett Ebedes is our moderator for today's sessions applying his wealth management and technology experience insights and focus
12.00pm Integrating managed accounts into advice software
Rick Di Cristoforo and Lanie Worsley both representing Morningstar discuss how modern advice technology is evolving and integrating with research capabilities
Modern advice technology is evolving and integrating with research capabilities to deliver an end to end workflow solution for advisers recommending Managed Accounts. From discovery and strategy to researched product selection and review, financial planning technology is now able to empower efficient, high quality compliant client recommendations
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12.30pm Advice Tech Choices - Platform vs Ecosystem - presented by Peter Worn of Finura
The exponential growth in global advice technology solutions has created a challenging set of choices.... Find out how the major global technology players will deliver better solutions to support your practice. ..Leading advice businesses are thinking now about the technology they will deploy over the next decade.
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Thursday 9th December 2021
12.00pm The North American Adviser Experience with Turnkey Asset Management presented by Eric Rocks and Stephanie Wilson of SS&C
What is a TAMP (Turnkey Asset Management Program) and why is it valuable? Stephanie and Eric use case studies on benefits to Canadian advisers using TAMPs and draw parallels for Australia advisers.
This presentation will explain case studies on the benefits that Responsible Investment Advisers are deriving from TAMPs and parallels for Australia advisers.
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12.30pm How Investing is Evolving: presented by Stuart Holdsworth of Financial Simplicity
What are the key technology components required to deliver personalised portfolios at scale ?From product distribution to customer success....What are the trends that are in play here from consumer and regulatory perspective?....What are the new service benchmarks ?....The importance to reframe around the client....Where do managed accounts fit into these trends?
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Friday 10th December 2021
12.00pm Winners of the IMAP Innovation 2021 Award Nucleus Wealth
Head of Operations Shelley George CFA provides an overview of Nucleus Wealth and how client use of their technology solution "Proton" selected for winner of the Innovation category in 2021.
.Shelley George will demonstrate how you can use their unique Proton system in your advice practice
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A wrap up by Peter Worn of Finura and Toby Potter - IMAP Chair summarises the key learnings from the InvestTech sessions over the week.
Introducing the speakers at InvestTech 2021
Head of Business Development - FE fundinfo
Head of Business Development - FE fundinfo Australia
Acting CEO - WealthO2
Andrew Whelan
Acting CEO - WealthO2
With over 20 years’ experience in the financial planning industry Andrew's expertise spans across advice technology, processes and documentation.
Prior to WealthO2 Andrew was head of distribution with Midwinter, and has held senior positions with Milliman and Morningstar.
Andrew joined WealthO2 in January 2021
Managing Director - Finura Group
Peter Worn
Co-Founder & Managing Director - Finura Group
Finura Group is focused on the enablement of the wealth management technology sector and the consulting services that support it.
Peter and the Finura team advise some of Australia and the UK’s leading financial services companies on their technology strategy & execution.
Peter holds several external board positions. He is an Independent Director of McQueen Financial Group, Chairman of Rising Tide Financial Services and on the Board of leading social media agency, Socialisd.
Peter holds an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Business
Head of Operations - Nucleus Wealth
Shelley George, CFA
Head of Operations - Nucelus Wealth
Shelley is responsible for driving and executing the company's ambition of improving the quality and availability of wealth management services in Australia.
She is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Econometrics). She has over a decade’s experience working in financial services. Including building the multi-asset class dealing capability at AustralianSuper, dealing global equity, derivative, currency, and bond markets, and small capitalisation Australian equity analysis.
Vice President & Managing Director, SS&C Technologies, Canada
Eric Rocks
Vice President &Managing Director, SS&C Technologies, Canada
Eric is responsible for a wide range of asset management products and services supporting private and institutional investment management.
He joined the SS&C team as part of the acquisition of FMC, and in his role as Vice President, he led several departments, among them development, client support, global operations and PMO
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Director of Product Management - SS&C Technologies, INC.
Stephanie Wilson CPA
Director of Product Management - SS&C Technologies.
Stephanie has been with SS&C Technologies for 10 years, and has 13+ years’ experience in investment and invetment technology and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Prior to joining SS&C Stephanie waorked in Investor Services for State Street for 4 years and then for Goldman Sachs for 3 years also specialising in Investor Services.
Stephanie holds a B.A. in Business Economics from York University, and is Certified Management Accountant and a Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada).
CEO & Founder Socialisd
Nicole Smith
CEO & Founder - Socialisd
Nicole and her team at Socialisd support business owners to tell their story better, engage with the right clients and play a role in educating the community about the true value of advice, via the use of social media and content creation.
Nicole loves nothing better than hearing an adviser say they now have a waiting list of clients because they made the choice to embrace and implement digital marketing strategies
Director of Research Products - Morningstar
Rick Di Cristoforo
Director of Research Products - Morningstar
Rick is responsible for leading the Morningstar’s research offerings including Adviser Research Centre and Research Advisory, its investment advisory offering through which it advises on approved product lists, model portfolios and managed accounts.
He has 20+ years experience in Financial Services, working with various institutions and advice businesses most recently leading a large Financial Advice business, and prior to that as a Director consultant with KPMG.
He has held a senior strategy positions at CBA and led Retail Distribution at Colonial First State. Rick was also Managing Director of AFSL Matrix Planning Solutions.
Rick holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New England, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), has an Advanced Diploma of Financial Services (Advice) from Kaplan Education, and is a Senior Affiliate of the Securities Institute of Australia.
He was the course writer and assessor of RG146 Investment Planning 1 & 2 courses for Kaplan Education, and currently is an assessor of Kaplan’s Ethics and Professionalism in Financial Advice course.
Rick is passionate about the value of professional financial advice, and the place that high quality Investment Research can play in the delivery of that advice, and the positive impact both can have on people’s lives and wellbeing.
Wealth Management Industry Consultant
Brett Ebedes
Independent Wealth Management Industry Consultant
Brett's consultancy specialises in corporate strategy, distribution and the application of technology as an enabler of business performance for licensees and advice practices.
He has more than 20 years’ experience in advice and fintech including having worked at Iress for 12 years where he held the roles of General Manager, National Manager and State Manager.
Prior to this, Brett was Director of Wealth Management for the Major Client Group at NAB / MLC and has also worked as a private client adviser, financial planner and paraplanner.
He holds degrees in both Commerce and Economics, as well as an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning and an Executive MBA.
Senior Consultant - Morningstar Australasia
Lanie Worsley
Senior Pre-Sales Consultant
Morningstar Australasia
CEO & Founder - Financial SImplicity
Stuart Holdsworth
CEO & Founder - Financial Simplicity
.Stuart has combined his extensive investment industry experience to become one of Australia’s thought leaders on client centric portfolio management and managed accounts.
Stuart is passionate about the growing consumer influences on the investment industry globally, and with Financial Simplicity, has helped enable over $30Bn in a myriad of managed account propositions (SMA, IMA, MDA, UMA) both here in Australia and internationally.
Stuart is the Founder, CEO and Director of Investment Proposition Innovation at Financial Simplicity, a member of the RegTech Association, and also a founder of the Institute of Managed Account Providers in Australia
Andrew Jones
General Manager Issuer Services - ASX
Andrew has over 28 years of experience in financial services. His current role is General Manager of Issuer Services at ASX, in that role he has responsibility for companies listed on ASX.
Prior to moving to ASX in 2019, Andrew worked with a small team launching RateSetter (now Plenti) and grew it to be Australia’s largest peer-to-peer lender.
Andrew has led numerous projects focusing on disruptive innovation in financial services and has served on several boards in the finance sector, including his current roles on the Board of Lendi, Australia’s largest mortgage broker and Digital Asset, the global leader in block chain smart contracting languages for financial markets.
Before the ASX and RateSetter, Andrew worked at Challenger, Qantas and Baker & McKenzie. He has an honours degree in Law and Commerce
Senior Business Development Manager - Finclear
Erica Vlavianos
Senior Business Development Manager - Finclear
Erica has been working in wealth creation and management for over ten years, in boutique firms as well as some of Australia’s largest institutions.
Based in Melbourne, Erica has an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning and relishes the challenges that working with the retail financial services industry brings.
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Meet the IMAP Event Team
IMAP Chair
Toby Potter
IMAP CHair
Toby has championed IMAP's mission for a number of years and is a key contributor for IMAP (along with others) in the representation to ASIC on recent changes to the MDA regulations and ongoing regulatory matters. His experience in the wider investments market is extensive and his advice and experience is frequently sought after for his breadth and detail, plus his knowledge of the people in the industry. His working experience includes key roles for NAB, IOOF, Morningstar, Managed Accounts (since rebranded to Xplore Wealth), SFG Australia
Program Manager - IMAP
Jenny Phimleut
IMAP Program Manager
Jenny manages IMAP's digital presence as well as its program of conference events, webinars and publications . She coordiantes IMAP special interest working groups. She is responsible for maintaining IMAP's processes and policies as well as developing promotional material. Her Financial Services background covers Next Financial working in Product and Portfolio Management and Shadforth Financial Group.
Support Manager
Craig Dewhurst
IMAP Support Manager
Contact Details for Enquiries about InvestTech 2021
Please contact the IMAP Event team with any queries:
Email Address: support@imap.com.au
Phone: +61 2 8003 4147