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Senior Suncorp distribution exec departs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2015
Asteron Life executive general manager of adviser distribution Jordan Hawke will leave Suncorp at the end of January. The company, which is a subsidiary of Suncorp Group, said the senior sales exec intends to take the year off to travel with his family. ...

NZ Super and Infratil buy RetireAustralia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
New Zealand Super has joined forces with Infratil to buy major Australian aged care facility operator RetireAustralia. The sovereign wealth fund and the asset manager will take 50% each after entering into a sale and purchase agreement worth $640.2 ...

Energy Super unveils new chair

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
Energy Super has appointed a new chairman following Bob Hendricks' decision to step down after nearly two decades in the role. Deputy chair Mark Williamson will take over as the new Chairman and director Scott Wilson will step into the deputy chair ...

BOQ hands acting CEO permanent position

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
Bank of Queensland has handed acting chief executive Jon Sutton the joint managing director and chief executive roles permanently. Sutton has been acting chief executive for around four months and was chief operating officer before that. He joined BOQ ...

Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... journalists and researchers who cover the space with enthusiasm and a can-do attitude. From next year deputy editor Mark Smith will be helming Financial Standard as editor and will no doubt do an amazing job. I will enjoy reading from afar, but in the ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Macquarie executive tops industry salary survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore has topped the list of highest paid listed financial services company executive. According to figures compiled by the Australian Financial Review, Moore received a total of $13.1 million in 2014, up 48% ...

BTFG restructures investment business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
BT Financial Group has reorganised to bring a number of separate investment business units under the same umbrella. BT Investment Solutions, as the division will be known, ties together Advance Asset Management, Westpac Online Investing and BT's own ...

Government Cyber Security Strategy already out of date

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chair David Murray has called for government and other financial system stakeholders to tighten processes to counter the growing threat of cyber-crime. Recommendation 38 in the final report of the FSI said the government's ...

FSI calls for tax relief to switch out of legacy products

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
The government should introduce a means to allow investors in out of date products to switch to new and improved products without being whacked with capital gains tax, the Financial System Inquiry has recommended in its final report. It is estimated ...