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Westpac appoints remediation lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
Westpac is welcoming a new head of remediation. At the same time, the group has responded to reports of up to 300 planned redundancies within BT Financial Group. Former ANZ general manager, wealth separation and transition Mandy Rutherford has joined ...

Franklin Templeton names institutional business director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
Franklin Templeton Australia has welcomed a senior director of institutional business. Matthew Jackson has commenced in the newly created role for the fund manager, which has more than $922.4 billion in assets under management globally. Sydney-based ...

Rest increases renewable energy investment

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
The $50 billion industry super fund will take full ownership of the largest wind farm in Western Australia as it moves to boost its infrastructure portfolio. Rest has agreed to buy out UBS Asset Management's 60% stake in Western Australia's Collgar ...

Westpac names business arm chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
Westpac has named the chief executive of its newly formed business division after announcing a group restructure in March. Guilherme (Guil) Lima joins the Westpac group from HSBC, where he was most recently group head of wealth management for the last ...

ASIC FAR, advice industry contract

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
More than 1700 financial advisers have dropped off the ASIC Financial Adviser Register in less than six months. As of this month, there are 27,108 active financial advisers in Australia, Rainmaker analysis of latest ASIC FAR data shows. At its height ...

Approved diplomas, bridging courses confirmed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority announced the first raft of current and historical graduate diplomas and bridging courses to be approved by the body. The diplomas and bridging courses approved, from select higher education providers ...

Chief economist update: Another rate cut on the cards

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
What do we want! More rate cuts! The depreciation in the A$/US$ exchange rate to as low as US$0.6902 immediately after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) - from US$0.6949 a day earlier - released its 'Labour Force' report for May ...

Industry veterans recognised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
A number of financial services industry veterans were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list this weekend. The 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours included investment professionals, financial advisers, banking professionals and superannuation ...

Shock win leaves investors worse off

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
Investors who chose to rebalance their portfolios in anticipation of a Labor victory in the Federal election now find themselves at a critical junction: to revert to an Australian equity focus or accept a more balanced portfolio that rejects excess ...

British MPs prod own pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... in the world-including wave technology in the north of Scotland and cases being worked on in Cornwall, Hampshire and the west coast of Wales-are not easily accessible investment vehicles and are not at the scale that a significant pension fund could ...