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UBS restructures global wealth arms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... Wealth Management (GWM) division will be co-led by Tom Naratil and Martin Blessing as presidents. Blessing was appointed president of wealth management last month and previously ran the UBS Switzerland business since September 2016. Prior to UBS, he ...

KPMG names insurance and wealth lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... in strategic leadership, corporate development and operational management roles. He was most recently regional vice president of Prudential Financial based in Singapore, running the Asia-Pacific strategy and corporate development, and growing the company's ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... 20 years of experience working across investment banking, hedge funds and trading. He was most recently a senior vice president of Northern Trust Capital Markets, focused on sales and trading in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong and China. Before his three-year ...

SuperConcepts ramps up digital transformation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... their financial accounts, they expect the most modern digital experiences on any type of device. Progress senior vice president of core products John Ainsworth said to stay competitive, organisations need to deliver the most modern and engaging web and ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Echoing BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's ...

Principal and CIMB strengthen asset management ties

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Islamic Asset Management. CIMB, a Malaysian wealth and banking group, will retain 40% ownership in the entities. Principal president of Southeast Asia and India, Pedro Borda said: "Southeast Asia is a growing and important region for Principal as we ...

Australia overdue for company tax cut: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
More than half of the respondents in Financial Standard's weekly spot poll said Australia should follow the United States' lead and drop the corporate tax rates to as low as 21%. The US reduced its corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% effective 1 January ...

The next generation of adviser and client

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... employees; it's vital to advisory firm survival and growth in the environment that is emerging," the report reads. SSGA vice president and head of practice management for the global SPDR business Brie Williams said it is up to all industry participants ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... year to November) the US central bank's 2.0% inflation target. This is underscored by Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank president Neel Kashkari's tweet, "I, for one, need to see more data," following the release of the December CPI report. Chances are ...

Australians raid super to pay for medical expenses

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... pay for medical bills according to a report released by Treasury. In a radio interview, Australian Medical Association president Michael Gannan said the most common form of medical care sought by people dipping into their superannuation is bariatric ...