Netwealth Group appoints head of technical services

The Netwealth Group has secured former Genesys Wealth Advisers head of private clients and technical Keat Chew as head of technical services.

Chew’s role of providing technical and legislative support to advisers on superannuation and financial planning matters will include areas of self-managed super funds, personal and corporate super, income tax, tax structures, estate planning, fringe benefits tax and packaging company and small business tax, and business succession planning.

According to Netwealth, Chew will also present at professional development days and dealer and industry conferences, speaking on technical matters while also providing technical marketing material for advisers and clients.

“Keat will also have a mandate to assist advisers focus on building their high-net-worth clients and developing strategies for this important market segment,” Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA) chief executive Mark Ryan said. FPSA is a dealer group that is part of the Netwealth group.

Keat has held positions at Ernst & Young, KPMG Peat Marwick, Jacques Martin and AXA as national technical services manager.

Meanwhile, according to Genesys, a replacement for Chew will not be made.

Instead, Genesys has adopted a liaison service that has been created to provide a variety of technical advice support services.

The Genesys liaison service also aims to deepen the competency of advisers operating in these areas while at the same time removing the dependency for practices on any single individual.

The service can be accessed by its advisers through its technical specialist, Madeleine Said.