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ABA appoints deputy chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
The Australian Banking Association has appointed Suncorp's chief executive as its new deputy chair. David Carter is taking the role from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director Mike Hirst, who announced his retirement from the bank in March. "The ...

NAB names wealth advocate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... the Australian Council for International Development; deputy chair of the Asylum Seekers Centre, and a board member of City West Housing and Energy Consumers Australia. NAB chief customer officer of consumer banking and wealth Andrew Hagger said since ...

New model boosts adviser engagement: MLC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
Since changing its retail advice support model, MLC Life Insurance has recorded a 25% improvement in lapse rates in the year to May 2018. MLC Life introduced business engagement managers (BEM) a year ago to provide advisers with the resources to engage ...

CBA restructures executive leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank made a raft of changes to its executive lineup following the announcement of plans to demerge its wealth management business. Current chief risk officer David Cohen has been promoted to deputy chief executive, charged with leading ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
A former Australian rugby union centre is joining a UK-based equities manager as its managing director for Australia. The firm is also launching an Aussie-based global equities unit trust seeded with $130 million from an industry superannuation fund. ...

BTFG adviser distribution team reshuffles

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
BT Financial Group head of adviser distribution Jo Moxey is leaving her role to pursue another opportunity within Westpac. A BTFG spokesperson confirmed the move this morning and said the group is proposing further changes inside its adviser distribution ...

TAL veterans launch new life insurance provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
A group of former TAL executives have launched a new distributor of life insurance products backed by a global reinsurer. NEOS Life aims to distribute through the financial adviser market and offers life, total and permanent disability, critical illness ...

BT Financial Advice cuts grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
BT Financial Advice is scrapping grandfathered commissions, effective October 2018. Commissions for products sold by financial advisers across the Westpac, St.George, Bank of Melbourne and BankSA network will no longer be paid on BT products or those ...

ASX on the lookout for new CFO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
A search is underway for a new chief financial officer at the Australian Securities Exchange after the market operator announced the retirement of its long-term CFO. Ramy Aziz' eight-year tenure as the ASX chief financial officer will come to an end ...

ASIC drags Westpac to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
ASIC has initiated civil penalty proceedings against Westpac in relation to a Perth financial planner whose poor advice has already seen the bank foot a $12 million bill to remediate clients. Sudhir Sinha provided financial advice in the Perth area ...