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Sunsuper director steps down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
A Sunsuper director has resigned from the board after serving half a term. Teresa Moltoni, who first joined the board in July 2016, will step down to focus on the expansion of her industrial relations consultancy and legal practice, effective January ...

Cromwell appoints chief capital officer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Cromwell Property Group has appointed a new chief capital officer. Simon Garing joins Cromwell from Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hong Kong, where he was deputy director of research - Asia-Pacific. Prior to that, he was head of real estate research ...

NAB refunds home loan customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
NAB refunded $1.7 million to home loan customers after it failed to properly set up mortgage offset accounts, according to ASIC. Customer complaints prompted NAB to conduct an internal review, which found the bank failed to link offset accounts to broker ...

Big 4, AMP fork out massive compensation bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
AMP and the big four banks refunded customers $215.9 million for charging ongoing advice fees that failed to provide actual general or personal advice. ASIC said this was in addition to the fees-for-no-service compensation figures identified in Report ...

Centrepoint Alliance names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
The chief executive of an IOOF-aligned dealer group will take over leadership of Centrepoint Alliance in 2018. Shadforth Financial Group chief executive Angus Benbow has been named as Centrepoint's new chief executive, commencing April 2018. Benbow ...

Chinese financial services giant eyes Australian expansion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
A Chinese financial services juggernaut, which is also the world's most valuable fintech company, is extending its reach into the Australian market under a new partnership. Ant Financial, which operates mobile payment and lifestyle platform AliPay ...

Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
To say that you, I and Irene were surprised at last month's NAB business survey - that showed Australian business conditions rocketed to an all-time high in October but confidence hardly budged - is more than just an understatement for even the survey ...

Thinning trade surplus shaves A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
Financial markets expected Australia's trade surplus to narrow in October but not by this much. The Australian Bureau of Statistics'(ABS) 'International Trade in Goods and Services report showed that the country's trade surplus dropped to just A$105 ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
Everything that could go right is going right for Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won by landslide at the 22 October 2017 general elections, ensuring that sitting Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda will be re-appointed when his term expires ...

SSGA sales head lands top job, successor named

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
The head of managed fund sales at State Street Global Advisors in Australia is relocating to the US headquarters in Boston for a senior role. Starting in the new year, Amy Johnston will lead a sales team across the Americas servicing corporates, endowments ...