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Wealth heavyweights join FSC board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
Some big names in wealth management have joined the board of the Financial Services Council, including from AMP and Challenger. AMP chief executive, wealth management Alex Wade, Challenger chief financial officer Andrew Tobin and Jason Yetton - who ...

Kelaher to leave IOOF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
IOOF has announced new leadership following the fallout from the Royal Commission, with managing director Chris Kelaher to leave the embattled wealth firm. Allan Griffiths has been named IOOF's new independent, non-executive chair. He has been acting ...

BlackRock names new Australasia head

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
BlackRock appointed a new head of Australasia to succeed Dominik Rohe. Andrew Landman will return from Hong Kong to Sydney to take the post in June. Rohe will become the head of the Latin America region. Landman was appointed head of the Asia Pacific ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
"The Budget is back in the black and Australia is back on track." That's how Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg opened his Budget 2019-20 speech delivered last night. Well, technically we all will have to wait until next fiscal year for the underlying ...

UBS small caps team launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
UBS Asset Management's small caps team is kicking off a boutique at Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners with a new unit trust in the works. Stephen Wood, Victor Gomes and David Haddad worked together for eight years on the ...

New insto sales lead at Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
The international asset manager has hired a new director of institutional sales for its local business. Chris Wildman joined Robeco last month as director, institutional sales from Mirae Asset Global Investments. Wildman was head of distribution at ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
If you want a poster boy to that old saying that, "a stitch in time saves nine" China is it. Latest data show that China's manufacturing sector is back in expansion. The official National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) China manufacturing PMI increased ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
If the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) very own Financial Aggregates report - released on March 29 - doesn't convince the board to switch from its current "neutral stance" to an interest rate cut very, very soon, by the time it does - and ...

Mine Super names new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
The $11 billion industry superannuation fund has promoted from within to fill its lead investment role. Mine Super named Seamus Collins as its new chief investment officer. He has been acting in the role since David Bell's departure from the fund in ...

Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
When I was an economics student, I never much cared about economic history. What good does economic history offer? The agricultural revolution gave way to the revolution in industry and now... the tech revolt. Surely, things and the way of doing things ...