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MetLife restructures US and UK operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Global life insurer MetLife will cease to write individual insurance policies in the United States, having established a new firm to house its domestic retail life and annuity insurance divisions. MetLife received final regulatory approval from the ...

AMP Capital grows infrastructure team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
AMP Capital appointed two directors to its infrastructure division to expand its capabilities in the energy sector. In a newly-created role within the infrastructure equity team, Stasha Prnjatovic will lead the sourcing, on-boarding and asset management ...

Disengaged members vulnerable in super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
A review by ASIC into member experience with superannuation has highlighted a number of key vulnerabilities for consumers. The report, which mapped three stages of the superannuation lifecycle - joining a fund, participating in a fund, and changing ...

WTW recruits FINEX Australasia lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... national manager as head of FINEX - Australasia. The global advisory firm has appointed Jill Stewart to lead the local division, which brings together experts in financial, executive and professional risks, mergers and acquisitions to enhance WTW's understanding ...

APRA finalises senior executive lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... structure with the promotion of its chief risk officer and the creation of a position to oversee its risk and data analytics division. As of 1 July 2017, APRA's current chief risk officer Ben Gully will become executive general manager, specialised institutions ...

Finance braces for Amazon effect

EMMA RAPAPORT AND DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... Speaking from Singapore via tele-conference at a recent Sydney media briefing, Budden said Amazon Web Services - one division of the online retail giant - generated US$10 billion revenue in less than 10 years. It took companies such as Apple, Microsoft ...

JB Financial enters buyout mode

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... position in bonds and bank bills, and will open up multiple opportunities to expand our important foreign exchange trading division as well." Finally, the company is looking to acquire "specific assets" in the retail currency exchange business of American ...

Sequoia announces acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
ASX-listed Sequoia Financial Group announced it will acquire Melbourne-based financial planning and accounting services firm InterPrac. Interprac "will add immediate scale, in particular to the SMSF Administration, Wealth Advisory and Investment Solutions ...

Link rebrands managed fund admin subsidiary

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... Steadfast Group in December 2016, will now be known as Link Fund Solutions and will be part of Link's Corporate Markets division which services global equity markets. The move reaffirms Link's strategy to expand into managed fund administration, providing ...

Robo-advisers expected to meet fiduciary rule

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... and Exchange Commission has said. According to reports the new chairman of the SEC, Jay Clayton, is directing the SEC Division of Investment Management - in co-ordination with the Staff of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations - to scrutinise ...