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McMillan Shakespeare restructures operations

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... business, blaming the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased competition and a general reduction in the number of car sales for the decline.

Former BMO head joins big four executive line-up

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
A former business banking head at the Bank of Montreal will relocate to Australia, after he nabbed a role as the group executive of business and private banking at one of the country's big four banks. Andrew Irvine has been appointed in the role at ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... coronavirus has resurfaced in Beijing and, with it, the re-imposition of lockdowns. Have money, will travel. The latest US retail sales report - up 17.7% in May from April - underscores the power of money. Cheaper borrowing costs and money printing from ...

Law firm bolsters financial services team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... internationally, helping firms in that sector with their market entrance, development of new products/services and cross border sales, their strategic direction, good governance, managing risks, implementing regulatory change, their relationships with ...

Realigning remuneration expectations

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and underperforming investment products, according to a new compensation report covering asset management, insurance and sales. This year is "unusually important" for salaries as the trifecta of sub-par returns, changing compensation fundamentals, and ...

ASIC secures $160m in remediation over junk credit insurance

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... also robust," Chester said. "It's both unfair to consumers and ultimately costly to business to sell junk insurance." The sales practices of this product were systematic and unjust, she said. "There is nothing fair about selling on-going consumer credit ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... the very least) or saved it from a negative print (at best). Together, hoarders and panic-buyers sent Australian retail sales to what the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) labelled "unprecedented demand" in March. Preliminary estimates by the ABS ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... have work are limited from spending due to social restriction regulations and business shutdowns. Not surprising, US retail sales plummeted by 8.7% in the month of March, with consumers only increasing their purchases of "food and beverages" (25.6%) ...

Former Wallaby banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... the Wallabies in the 1980s and early 1990s before making the move into finance. He is a former managing director of equity sales at Citigroup, former executive director of Pengana Capital and a former director of Diversa.

SS&C secures platform mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... all our clients succeed," Bremner said. Around a year ago the firm added former BNP Paribas Securities Services head of sales Steve Tremelling as managing director for institutional and investment management. Based in Sydney, Tremelling reports to Bremner ...