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Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
Buried deep within budget documents are several steps the government will take to further boost our financial system, including greater powers for regulators and $11.2 million to enhance super fund member outcomes. While far from the headline measures ...

ASIC cracks down on investment guru

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... effective from 18 February 2020. Master Wealth Control has had a credit licence since 2011 but, according to ASIC, did not engage in any authorised credit activities from the period commencing February 18. Grubisa had statements on her website claiming ...

State Street appoints APAC head of asset managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
State Street has hired from KPMG to fill the newly created role of head of asset managers segment, Asia Pacific. Neil Macdonald will join the role effective May 14. He will lead State Street's engagement strategy for asset manager clients in Asia ...

Milford hires from Macquarie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
New Zealand-based investment firm Milford Asset Management has appointed a head of wholesale distribution and more as it expands its team. Murray Pell has been appointed head of wholesale distribution, joining from Macquarie Bank where he was responsible ...

Infrastructure Capital hires from Frontier

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
Infrastructure Capital Group (ICG) has made several key appointments, including nabbing Frontier's head of real assets and private equity. Isabelle Demir, who was head of real assets and private equity at Frontier, has been appointed executive director ...

OpenMarkets hires, acquires, preps for IPO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
OpenMarkets has made a series of senior appointments as it prepares for an initial public offering. Naseema Sparks has been appointed chair, Andrew Rutherford and Paul Rayson are new non-executive directors and Bob Alexander is now executive director ...

Super fund in-houses advice service

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
A $59 billion industry superannuation fund is shaking up its advice and employer units by internalising its general advice service and hiring several managerial positions to the employer division. From July, Rest's general advice team will work in-house ...

Suncorp divests super unit to industry fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Suncorp will divest its wealth division to an industry fund, transferring $6.4 billion in assets under management and 137,000 members. LGIAsuper will pay $45 million for the acquisition of Suncorp Portfolio Services and will retain about 130 staff that ...

ACSI launches new climate change policy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... that investors take to manage these risks has to be more active," Davidson said. "ACSI and our members will constructively engage with companies, however, where a company fails to meet investor expectations, we will take action. Our members will not ...

Pandemic boosts financial sector's engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
Financial services employees have never been more engaged in their roles since the global pandemic disrupted the workforce, a new study shows. The global workplace study by ADP, a provider of human resource solutions, found that the shift from office-based ...