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Senior hires at Northern Trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
On the back of announcing Sally Surgeon will head its Sydney operations, Northern Trust is growing its local presence and product offering with an additional three senior hires. Northern Trust hired Simon McDonough as a senior equity program trader ...

JB Financial enters buyout mode

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... Proprietary Trading, founded in 2016 and, JB Financial said, "highly complementary to JB Financial's existing broking operations." The non-binding agreement between Genesis and JB Financial will comprise a purchase price of $11 million, half of which ...

HUB24 lures BTFG executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
Listed wealth management platform HUB24 appointed Craig Lawrenson as its chief operations officer. Lawrenson will start his new role in mid-August after serving more than 20 years at Westpac subsidiaries BT Financial Group and Asgard. He most recently ...

ING restructures, creates distribution head role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... the leadership of Mark Woolnough, formerly head of third party distribution, the restructuring of ING's distribution operations aims to ensure a more positive customer experience, regardless of their preferred channel. "We have customers who have come ...

Executive hires at SCOR Global Life

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Reinsurance company SCOR Global Life Australia hired two executives to help grow its local operations. New chief underwriter, Debra Pitcher, will be responsible for the company's life underwriting strategy in Australia and New Zealand, focusing on developing ...

ANZ appoints chief underwriter

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... acting chief underwriter following John Leonard's retirement in March, having previously been group underwriting and operations manager and senior manager, insurance transformation since joining ANZ in 2013. Before that, Tilocca held multiple roles at ...

Decumulation will drive investment focus shift: AXA IM

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... another sizable shift in the Australian market. In line with the firm's global growth strategy, AXA IM has expanded its operations in Asia-Pacific with the acquisition of Sydney-based Eureka - Real Assets in 2016. AXA IM has also invested heavily over ...

Broaden levy to foreign banks: Big four

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... offshore branches as it will "also increase the costs of Australian banks that seek to compete overseas." ANZ's UK operations for example, is already subject to the UK banking levy (if local liabilities exceed £20 billion) and will pay the bank profit ...

PAC secures $33m in insto capital

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... general meeting in March to implement a major restructure of its business to resolve issues arising from the merger of operations between Treasury Group and Northern Lights Capital group under the then-jointly-controlled Aurora Trust. PAC's goal was ...

Greater adoption of tech in new world of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... 12 months. That is a key finding of a new report from Netwealth, showing that 69% of advisers plan to spend more on operations processes and workflow technologies and 79% are also looking to invest more in tools to aid client engagement. Reasons listed ...