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ASIC highlights strategic priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
... vulnerable to investment scams. Australians lost more than $242 million to investment scams in the first half of 2022, with bank transfers continuing to be the most common payment form of attack. ASIC chair Joe Longo said the plan identifies work that ...

Credit Suisse hires head of infrastructure

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
Timothy Foy will join Credit Suisse Australia as its new managing director and head of infrastructure Australia. With over 26 years' experience, Foy joins from Jefferies where he also served as managing director and head of infrastructure. He has previously ...

NGS Super chief executive retires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
... joined from AMP where she was senior manager, trustee governance. She also held roles at Suncorp, Perpetual and Commonwealth Bank. NGS Super is currently recruiting for a permanent replacement.

Equity Trustees confirms AET acquisition

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
Equity Trustees has announced it will acquire Insignia Financial's Australian Executor Trustees (AET) for $135 million. Following last week's market speculation, a statement said the acquisition will deliver significant growth for EQT, adding ...

FIIG Securities appoints chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2022
... managed investments, wealth management at and Standard Chartered in Singapore. Earlier in his career he was with Macquarie Bank in Australia and Hong Kong, managing its broking business units. He has also held roles with Citi and EY. A statement said ...

Transurban names new chair

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... senior leadership positions including chief executive of Medibank, group executive finance and strategy of National Australia Bank Limited, chief executive and country head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia, and chief executive and executive ...

Strong wage growth lags inflation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... Still, readily rising wages suggest labour market strength is now flowing through to wages, which should keep the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) confident that wages will support household income, Barclays upheld. "We continue to expect three more 25 ...

Norwegian wealth fund records $250bn loss

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
Norges Bank Investment Management announced the Government Pension Fund Global lost 1.68 trillion Norwegian krone, which is the equivalent of almost $250 billion AUD in the first half of this year, largely driven by equity returns, primarily technology ...

Practifi launches deal management app

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
Practifi has rolled out a business development app for the wealth industry that manages multiple growth activities while tracking pipeline performance. The app seeks to satisfy industry demand for comprehensive lifecycle management that tracks and manages ...

China records historic trade surplus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
... imports pushed the trade surplus to a new record high of US$101 billion in July from US$98 billion in June." Further, the bank surmised: "We think the continued upside surprises in exports reflects limited disruptions to production from renewed Covid ...