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Sequoia Financial Group grows board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... experience across financial services. His appointment follows a comprehensive external process to identify new non-executive directors complimentary to existing directors' skills and experience, Sequoia chairman Michael Carter said. In the funds management ...

Insto investors looking for company transparency: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... help them understand the fundamentals of the business and its strategic goals, the value contributed by the board of directors and the links between board policies and decisions, management's effectiveness and the company's long-term economic performance. ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... pay commitment should prove influential across the industry," she said. Further, one-third of Wells Fargo's board of directors are women and one-third are people of colour. On 1 January 2018 the bank welcomed Elizabeth "Betsy" Duke as its chair, making ...

2017 AGMs less tumultuous: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), which recommended that its members vote against the election of certain directors in companies without female representation on their boards," ASIC said. On the back of this report, boards still need to make ...

O'Dwyer proposes compulsory unpaid super law

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... training," she added. O'Dwyer also backed the use of Director Identification Numbers, a 100-point identification check on directors, to help identify who is robbing employees of their superannuation. These measures follow the recommendations of the Superannuation ...

UBS restructures global wealth arms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... previously ran the UBS Switzerland business since September 2016. Prior to UBS, he spent 15 years on the board of managing directors of Commerzbank, half of which Blessing served as chair. He succeeds Jurg Zeltner, who will step down from the group executive ...

FIIG Securities head of intermediaries departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... Feldmanis to the board. "Both join with considerable experience and expertise in senior executive positions, and as directors, in the private and public sectors, bringing extensive knowledge of the fixed income asset class, the financial services landscape ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... and will be led by two former Northern Trust executives. James Santo and Neil Hetherington were appointed as managing directors of Tourmaline's Australian operations and will aim to support clients in Asia-Pacific markets, Europe and North America. Santo ...

CFA Australia recruits industry veterans

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
CFA Societies Australia appointed investment management veterans Maria Wilton and Stephen Dunne to chair its diversity and advocacy bodies respectively. Wilton is the new chair of CFA Societies Australia's National Diversity Committee, a body aiming ...

Bravura scores platform deal

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... society bonds, funeral bonds, and death and distress benefit funds. It supports a large network of Australia's funeral directors through the provision of funds management for pre-paid funeral plan products and funeral bonds. Foresters recently embarked ...