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Zurich establishes risk specialist team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... workshops. Business development managers from Macquarie Life Jessica Brady and Danielle Visser will form the team alongside Zurich West Australian regional manager David Rees. As a result of the changes, Zurich's national sales and strategic manager ...

Super funds struggling as member engagement decreases

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
Superannuation funds are finding it increasingly difficult to keep their members engaged, according to CoreData research. The CoreData 2016 Member Engagement Report found that 51.4% of super members surveyed were engaged with their retirement savings ...

ASIC compensation plummets despite surveillance success

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
The amount of consumer compensation ASIC secured decreased by 91% in the six months to June 30, 2016, despite increased surveillance outcomes almost across the board. ASIC's latest enforcement report shows that the regulator secured $13.4 million in ...

BTFG alternatives head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
BT Financial Group's head of alternatives at BT Investment Solutions has left the company. Chris Thompson joined BT in 2005 as a portfolio manager for multi-manager funds. He was a founding member of the team. He moved onto the head of alternatives ...

Westpac COO departs, management restructures

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
Westpac will reshuffle its executive team following the departure of its chief operating officer who is set to retire from the company. John Arthur joined Westpac in 2008 as group executive, counsel and secretariat. He became chief operating officer ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... reopen without conditions, and announced a new initiative to end the use of oil blockades as a political tactic. "In the West of Libya, 400,000 barrels per day of production is shut in at the Sharara and El-Feel fields. The cost to the country is plain ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
FTA with Indonesia gets closer Australia's trade minister, Steve Ciobo, is in Jakarta this week holding talks with Indonesian Minister for Trade, Enggartiasto Lukita, trying to negotiate details of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership ...

FIIG appoints head of middle markets

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
Fixed income dealer FIIG Securities has appointed a head of middle of markets. Mathew Simpson will take on the role, as FIIG looks to expand its reach in the middle markets sector. Simpson joins FIIG from Western Union where he was head of dealing. ...

Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
With inflation at a 17 year low markets are pricing in a rate cut at next week's RBA meeting, although, according to head of investment management Australia at Western Asset Management, Anthony Kirkham, a rate cut might not be the right answer. With ...

Major tenant extends lease at Cromwell property

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Global real estate investment manager, Cromwell Property Group, has confirmed that the Bureau of Meteorology has extended its lease at 700 Collins Street, Melbourne for a further 10 years. The Bureau of Meteorology occupies approximately 15,500 square ...