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Shaw and Partners appoints sales lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... business at Franklin Templeton. Throughout his career he has also held senior roles with the likes of Ignition Advice, Westpac and J.P. Morgan. In the new role, he will work closely with investment and sales teams across Asia, North America, Europe and ...

Brian Hartzer in new role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021
Former Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer has taken on a new role with a technology firm. He will chair the board of Reejig, an artificial intelligence human resources technology company. Hartzer currently also serves as chair of Beforepay, a Sydney-based ...

Westpac profit jumps 138%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
Westpac reported a whopping 138% jump in statutory profit to $5.5 billion in its full-year September 2021 results. The bank attributed the earnings jump to a combination of turning around impairment charges and growing its mortgages, institutional and ...

CBA pleads guilty to selling junk insurance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... insurance through cold calls, secured over $250 million in remediation for customers and has taken civil action against Westpac," Court said. "Today we add criminal proceedings against CBA. These interventions were necessary because the industry did ...

Newcastle advice firm joins Count Financial

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... Lusher Financial Services, BT Funds Management and the ATO. Samson on the other hand worked at Baharian Wealth Management, Westpac and Aon Hewitt. "At one point, we considered the self-licensing option but with the complexity of a constantly changing ...

Westpac director stands down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... non-executive director at the big four bank has resigned from the board to focus on his health. Steven Harker joined the Westpac board in 2019 and was a member of the audit, board legal, regulatory and compliance and remuneration committees. "The time ...

Two senior leaders exit Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... the end of 2021 after nearly five years. Prior to Iress, he ran his own communications consultancy firm, and worked at Westpac and Acumen Republic. Iress is currently recruiting for a new chief client solutions officer. Head of communications and of ...

Six Park hires operations chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
Six Park hired a new operations chief in September who finished up at Westpac after a decade with the bank. Tuula Keto is the robo-adviser's chief operating officer. She most recently worked in the bank's group and change integration unit and ...

BlackRock names APAC wealth lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
A former Westpac executive has joined BlackRock to lead its wealth division for Asia Pacific. BlackRock appointed Guilherme Lima to the position of Asia Pacific head of wealth, responsible for developing strategies for wealth management, private banks ...

Assembly FM names head of capital

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... across product development analyst, investment relations, and investment and capital markets. Prior to that, he was at Westpac and CLSA. AFM's flagship fund Australian Diversified Property Fund 1 (ADPF1) was launched in 2019. It invests in residential ...