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Christopher Page
Managing Director, Financial Standard

Christopher Page is the founder, managing director and group publisher of the Rainmaker Group of companies.

At Rainmaker Group, he leads business development, product innovation, strategic planning and customer relationship management.

Prior to forming Rainmaker Group, Page held a wide range of senior management roles with investment managers.

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A new era
After years of back and forth, the legislation to increase the professional standards of financial advisers has been passed. The new professional standards regime will commence on 1 January 2019. All ...
The super threshold - what it means and what it doesn't
The introduction of a $1.6 million superannuation transfer balance cap was one of the biggest changes handed down in the 2016 federal budget. Now that the dust has settled it's time to consider what the ...
Advice at claim time
If the recent scandal at CommInsure has taught us anything, it's the value of having a financial adviser at claim time. That may not seem like the case at the moment given that advisers have become targets ...
What do you want from your platform?
2015 wasn't the easiest year for investment platforms. According to Plan for Life research, platform flows more or less stagnated during the first six months, with inflows barely exceeding outflows (resulting ...
'Tis the Season
Parliament's decision on November 24 must have allayed any fears that advisers were going to get a proverbial lump of coal under the Christmas tree. Specifically, the decision to repeal key Future of ...
Beyond product
One of the biggest themes to come out of the Murray inquiry is the idea of redefining the value proposition of financial advice. We keep hearing from the regulator that financial planning needs to be ...
The adviser exodus?
If you've been reading Financial Standard recently - and I hope you have - you may have noticed a particular trend. Specifically, a number of advice practices are shifting away from large, institutionally-aligned ...
The remuneration revolution
Three months on and it's finally happened. After Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox told the audience at the Financial Services Council's 2015 Life Insurance Conference that he ...
Tying the knot
When Bill Shorten introduced his same-sex marriage bill to a near-empty Parliament chamber on June 1, it was clear his "opportunity of a generation" was probably going to be missed - well, at ...
Rise of the machines?
One of the biggest problems with so-called "robo-advice" is that no one agrees on what the term actually means. Uncertainty lends itself to suspicion, and this isn't helped by research like Oxford Martin's ...
Latest News
Financial lifestyle coaching: The future of advice
JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |   12:20PM
Financial adviser roles as we know them will cease to exist in coming years as the push towards financial lifestyle coaching rises.
Advice at any age will enhance retirement: Sunsuper
EMMA RAPAPORT  |   12:01PM
More than half of Australian adults say they want to spend retirement travelling, yet two thirds don't have a plan for how they will live in retirement, according to Sunsuper.
Advice key to living the dream
JAMIE WILLIAMSON
Those that feel more fulfilled in life are more likely to have an ongoing relationship with a financial planner, according to new insights from the Financial Planning Association of Australia.
Managed Accounts Forum survey open
DARREN SNYDER
In the lead up to the Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts, Financial Standard is running a survey to help provide industry insight.
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Investors that decided to reframe their thoughts about asset allocation in recent years paved the way for launching the JPMorgan Global Macro Opportunities Fund in Australia. The fund presents as an additional ...
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