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Westpac names business arm chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
Westpac has named the chief executive of its newly formed business division after announcing a group restructure in March. Guilherme (Guil) Lima joins the Westpac group from HSBC, where he was most recently group head of wealth management for the last ...

Best-performing funds with least risk

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
What are the best-performing Australian equities funds with the best-managed risk? Rainmaker ranked the winners over three-year returns to March. "Investors considering managed funds options are interested in the rate of return their investment makes ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... March quarter from 0.3% in the last quarter of 2018. Not to mention the 0.1% contibution from private inventories in the March - unwanted stock build-up - that followed another 0.1% addition in the previous three-month period. Latest Japanese inflation ...

ANZ cleared of $50m fee bungle

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
ASIC has cleared ANZ of the $50 million fee-for-no-service misconduct connected to its Prime Access offering. The corporate regulator said it is satisfied by the audited attestation it received from ANZ, signed by managing director private banking and ...

Chief economist update: Another rate cut on the cards

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
What do we want! More rate cuts! The depreciation in the A$/US$ exchange rate to as low as US$0.6902 immediately after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) - from US$0.6949 a day earlier - released its 'Labour Force' report for May ...

AMP Super, board slapped with licence conditions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
APRA announced this morning it is taking action on AMP's superannuation business and board, concerned they breached several areas of superannuation law. AMP Superannuation and N.M. Superannuation Proprietary, collectively known as AMP Super, were ...

Tribeca's Fenton to set up shop at Channel

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
The former co-portfolio manager of the $978 million Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund is getting ready to start a new long/short investment firm with the Sydney-based multi-boutique. Sean Fenton and three others are expected to launch a new equities boutique ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Just a weetle more, a weetle more... a little more push higher and sooner than soon, the All Ordinaries index would satisfy the technical definition of a bull market - a 20% rally from its nearest low - and onwards towards topping its record high of ...

International firm acquires advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
A national financial advice group with more than 120 advisers on its books is to be acquired by a major Canadian wealth manager. Patersons Securities is being purchased by Canaccord Genuity via its Australian operations, Canaccord Financial Group. As ...

Blue Sky dissolves chief executive role

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
Blue Sky is bidding farewell to its chief executive, after a strategic assessment determined the role "is no longer required". Joel Cann left the organisation effective Friday, less than two months after he joined the company. Cann joined from property ...