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Former Morgan Stanley chief to join Westpac board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... efforts for nearly 20 years, from 1998. In 2016, he relinquished his management duties but stayed in the company as vice chairman until last month. Prior to his time at Morgan Stanley, Harker spent 15 years at the predecessor to Barclays Investment Bank ...

Former ACCC chair will lead APRA capability review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
The Federal Government has appointed a former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman to lead a capability review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Responding to the Royal Commission's final report into Misconduct ...

SMSF expert joins AMP board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... on 31 January 2019 to take up the role at AMP. Slattery was appointed to Centrepoint's board in November 2018. AMP chairman David Murray noted Slattery's financial services experience, including her 14 years as managing director and chief executive ...

Australia Day honours recognise industry stalwarts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... at NAB, Link Group, Charter Hall, Bank of New Zealand Life Insurance, icare, Quintessence Labs and SBS. He is a former chairman at Stateplus and director at Crowe Horwath and MLC among other roles. Former Franklin Templeton Investments Australia managing ...

First neobank granted full banking licence

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... said Volt Bank was the first new retail-focused bank to be granted a licence since the early 2000s. In May 2018, APRA chairman Wayne Byres supported the proposed regulatory reforms. "By making it easier for aspiring ADIs [neobanks] to enter the market ...

Mercer appoints new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... 2011 to lead its Europe and Pacific retirement business. Ferland will succeed Portalatin who has been promoted to vice chairman of Marsh & McLennan. Both will report to Marsh & McLennan president and chief executive Dan Glaser. Commenting on the change ...

ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... has served as a QIC senior funds manager and head of private equity for Victorian Funds Management. He is also a former chairman of the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. The charges against Brown were dismissed by Waigani District ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... improvement in the Australian labour market and... we'll be right mate! But wait! This smacks of the same optimism ex-Fed chairman Ben Bernanke blurted out about a couple of years before the GFC hit: "...we do not expect significant spillovers from ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
I hear ya! US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell had already come out declaring something along these lines at his first outing for 2018. Still, it's more comforting to have all the members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) put their imprimatur in ...

BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... have been "slow to keep pace" with technological transformations already revolutionising other industries. BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink said the partnership would allow the firms to build a "powerful solution for millions of hardworking ...