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New investment role at industry fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... responsibilities from Rob Fowler who is moving to semi-retirement. Fowler first announced his intention to step back in February. Fowler most recently held the executive, investment execution role. That role had a slightly different scope than the new ...

NAB names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... five years, and was also previously CBA's executive general manager. McEwan replaces Andrew Thorburn who resigned in February following the bank's lambasting at the Royal Commission and shortly after a Roy Morgan survey named NAB as Australia's ...

ISA lays out $416bn super saving plan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... were consolidated - and speedup the process of weeding out underperforming funds. As revealed to Financial Standard in February this year, the lobby group is wary of stapling workers to one superannuation account for their entire lives. According to ...

APRA forced to overhaul culture, capabilities

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... effectiveness, leadership structure and sluggish approach to enforcement. Samuel was appointed by the Federal Government in February to lead the panel, which comprises AGL Energy non-executive director Diane Smith-Gander and former Reserve Bank of New ...

OnePath receives first Life Code sanction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... Protection Insurance product as non-compliant with the Code, but continued to sell the product for a further 19 months until February 2019. It was agreed in November 2018 that OnePath would commence remediation, including writing to all customers who ...

Perpetual Investments leaks $1.1bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... by institutional clients who have $7 billion invested through Perpetual Investments (about 25% of the total FUM). In February, Perpetual chief executive and managing director Rob Adams said the business was open to expanding its focus outside of value ...

AMP Life sale blocked

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... would see the creation of a "simpler, more focused group, that is well positioned to compete in our core markets". In February, AMP named group executive, insurance Megan Beer as chief executive of AMP Life with a view to leading the business post its ...

Managed investment scheme operator AFSL canned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... John McIerney of Grant Thornton are the joint liquidators of both companies. Australian Mutual held an AFS licence since February 2006. Peter Krejci of BRI Ferrier was appointed voluntary administrator of Australian Mutual on June 28 2019. ASIC commissioner ...

Association names new chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... Succeeding him will be current Shareholders Association of Australia chief executive Judith Fox. Fox has led the ASA since February 2017. Prior to this she was national director, policy and advocacy at the Governance Institute of Australia for 10 years. ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... much like the stimulus cheques mailed out by the Rudd government during the depths of the global financial crisis in February 2009." "On that occasion, cheques of $950, worth a combined $8.1 billion, were mailed out over a short period of time, boosting ...