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Aviva chief executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... appointed, the board said Montague will revert to his role of non-executive chair. Wilson was named chief executive in January 2013 with a mandate to turn the company around, the board said. "Under his leadership, Aviva has been reshaped to significantly ...

CBA to refund dead customers, grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... customers, a process expected to benefit about 50,000 customer accounts by about $20 million annually. This will commence in January 2019. CBA is also advocating for government intervention in removing such payments on super and investment products. ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... the upward push in India's inflation caused by rising oil prices - the price of Brent oil has risen by 24% between January and September this year - because of the country's dependence on oil imports. According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...

ASIC appeal convicts former CBA planner

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... the sentence of former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser Ricky David Gillespie. ASIC's investigation between 1 January 2007 and 13 June 2009 alleged that Gillespie, a senior financial planner on the Gold Coast at the time, forged the signatures ...

NAB combines teams, appoints executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... experience into one business, along with providing clear leadership direction to the team." Ristevski first joined NAB in January 2017 as general manager of business bank marketing and customer strategy, and has also been acting as executive general ...

The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... also said the role of women and of marketing professionals on boards is crucial. "When I first came onto the board in January 2012, my first AIC seminar suggested that women were a rare commodity," Collins said. "This has changed significantly over the ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met as usual on the first Tuesday of the month (except January), on October 2. It could be both, plus of course, the fact that not a single soul and his dog anticipate anything ...

Diversity a material economic indicator: AXA IM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... outcomes and ability to protect future profits. AXA IM said the research studied the largest 1000 US companies between January 2005 and July 2017, and added to an increasingly large pile of evidence which draws connections between organisational diversity ...

AAT overrides adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... business name BF Wholesale. The banning will be recorded on ASIC's register of financial advisers. Between 2015 and January 2018, Fletcher was an authorised representative of the Australian Warranty Network, which holds an Australian credit licence ...

Easton buys SMSF service provider

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
... director Greg Hayes said the acquisition comes as the company sees more accountants entering financial advice. "FASEA's January 1 changes to education standards probably don't have the same amount of pressure for accounting practices as they do advice ...