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ESSSuper welcomes strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
... at UniSuper as a marketing intelligence manager. During her career in the financial services industry, she has worked with Bank of New York Mellon, Advance Funds Management, Perpetual Trustees, and AXA. ESSSuper group executive of strategy brand and ...

Reforms will strengthen retirement advice: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
Reforms underway to expand financial advice will have positive ramifications for the SMSF and APRA-regulated sectors as it will ultimately uplift outcomes in the retirement phase for all Australians, industry experts say. The first day of the annual ...

Risk, compliance staff in hot demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
With regulatory demands showing no signs of slowing in 2024, experienced risk and compliance professionals remain hot property. According to Kaizen Recruitment director Amanda Chisholm, factors like RG97, the Financial Accountability Regime, regulators' ...

Economists share their top left field ideas for 2024

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... Chris Paton highlighted the resilience of the property market as his Factor-X. "I don't see that changing given where central bank rates are... It's probably not going to appreciate at the kind of pace it did during COVID, but the property market is ...

Link, The Trust Bank progress acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
Link Group is on track to become part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (The Trust Bank) by mid-2024, having kicked off work to integrate the businesses. In a trading update this morning, Link said it has filed all major regulatory approval submissions ...

ANZ gets green light for Suncorp merger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... said it was not satisfied with the proposal because it would reduce competition in the banking market. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank also opposed the decision. This morning, ACT deputy president justice John Halley said there were sufficient "net public ...

Madigan Capital appoints head of investment capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... in commercial real estate debt, seeking stable and sustainable investment returns in private markets. Despite the Reserve Bank of Australia reporting non-bank lending constitutes a minor portion of the Australian financial system - approximately 5% of ...

Mergers a boon for super member growth

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... that experienced the worst nominal net member growth were AMP, Insignia Financial, Colonial First State (CFS), Commonwealth Bank Officers Super, and TWUSUPER. CFS lost 29,426 members and saw total membership dip 3.5% year on year; it finished up with ...

UK, Japan slip into technical recession

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... quarter as a result of lower spending on recreation and culture, miscellaneous goods and services, as well as transport. The Bank of England (BoE) held rates at 5.25% on February 1, the fourth consecutive month in a row. Meanwhile, Japan's GDP contracted ...

Commonwealth Bank slapped with $10.3m fine for wage theft

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
Commonwealth Bank was fined $10.3 million by the Federal Court for its involvement in wage theft which led to $16 million in underpayments to over 7400 workers. The case emerged after the Finance Sector Union (FSU) uncovered the bank's systematic ...