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Planning foundation adds directors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... children in vulnerable circumstances. Maragna has previously appeared in the Financial Standard Power50 and is a regular finance commentator and advocate for the financial planning profession.

Boutique manager hires investment banking expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... Hamish Mitchell as investment director to lead its loan origination activities in Victoria after heading RBC's leveraged finance business for about a year. Mitchell has relocated from Sydney to Melbourne for the new role. His prior experience includes ...

Financial services boom rolls on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... services employed about 450,000 people, representing 3.5% of total employment. About half of the sector's employees work in finance (banking and funds management); 20% work in insurance and superannuation; and 30% are employed in auxiliary services such ...

Sydney portfolio manager on best female fundies list

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... returning manager was Alphinity's Bruce Smith with 14%. In June last year, Institutional Investor released a list of 50 finance professionals who are most coveted by recruited for a chief investment officer role. AustralianSuper head of portfolio ...

Schroders acquires majority stake in impact investor

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
Global asset manager Schroders has acquired a majority stake in Swiss impact investor BlueOrchard Finance. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, with the acquisition expected to complete in the second half of 2019. Schroders now has ...

Women don't know their worth: Noble Oak

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... average of $796,000. People working in financial services and insurance overvalued their life insurance needs by $102,000. Finance and insurance were the only industries Noble Oak surveyed where, on average, people overvalued rather than undervalued ...

Credit Suisse names chief executive

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
Credit Suisse hired Deutsche Bank's former head of corporate finance, Asia Pacific to lead its Australian operations as chief executive. Effective October, Richard Gibb will lead the Swiss investment bank's Australian franchise across investment banking ...

All options open for retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... workers." Asked by Labor Senator Marielle Smith whether he agreed with Senator Bragg's policy suggestions, Minister for Finance Senator Mathias Cormann said he did not. "The answer is no. I've told him that privately-and now publicly," Cormann said. ...

Macquarie asset management business down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... the timing of performance fees and higher operating expenses following recent platform acquisitions; corporate and asset finance (CAF) was down due to reduced loan volumes and realisations in CAF principal finance; and banking and financial services ...

Suncorp responds to shareholder resolution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... insurance business and investment portfolio, and a negligible proportion of our commercial lending portfolio. Suncorp doesn't finance fossil fuel projects as it doesn't have an institutional bank." The spokesperson added that Suncorp does not directly ...