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St George names new planning heads in strategy push

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
St George Banking Group continues its multi-brand strategy push, announcing new roles for planning heads for Bank of Melbourne and St George Financial Planning, as the group builds its advice full-service offer to Victorian customers. The St.George ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... banks, locked in fierce competition for dwindling new mortgage business, moved quickly to cut their fixed loan rates. St George Bank and Westpac cut three-year fixed rates by 0.20% while the Commonwealth cut loans fixed for up to five years by up to ...

BT regroups for market push

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... Spiers will continue to lead the advice business while BT expands its focus on high net worth customers of Westpac, St George and Bank of Melbourne Private through its Private Wealth division, lead by Jane Watts.

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The first accounts were opened today at the new Bank of Melbourne, as Westpac rebrands its St George group and embarks on an expansion drive to capture the Victorian regional market. Scott Tanner, chief executive, said the bank today opened three new ...

ANZ gains head of wealth marketing in newly expanded role

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... marketing in a newly expanded position. Bettina Pidcock, who has also held marketing leadership positions at Asgard/St George, MLC and Westpac, has more than 20 years' experience in financial services marketing, ANZ said. She will take up the new role ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said. But the growth rate was better than market forecasts of 9.4 per cent. St George Bank senior economist Jo Heffernan said morning trade had been dominated by ongoing debt concerns in Europe and weak domestic ...

ANZ Wealth names head of finance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... general manager finance and legal at BT Financial Group. In this role he was responsible for the merger of the BT and St George wealth finance and legal operations. He resigned from the role of alternative director on February 15 this year. BT did not ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... despite the current furor around MTAA Super, they ranked number 12 ahead of major retail brands Suncorp, ANZ, NAB, AMP, St George, AXA and Westpac. High profile industry fund HostPlus came in at sixteenth place. "Over the last five years, industry fund ...

Tyndall builds compliance team

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... 25-year financial services career, Griffin has also worked for ABN AMRO Asset Management, Barclays Global Investors and St George Bank, focusing on risk management and compliance. Harris has spent the last decade working as an independent compliance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... a technical recession. It was the steepest slippage since a record 18.3 per cent contraction in January March 2009. St George Bank chief economist Besa Deda said that even though around 18.5 per cent of Australia's exports go to Japan, the Australian ...