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For Stanford Brown, life begins at 30

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Sydney-based financial planning group Stanford Brown doesn't do things by halves. On the eve of its 30th anniversary, it announced a string of initiatives that sets it apart from traditional advice businesses. Last month Stanford Brown marked its 30 ...

State Street global chief to retire

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
State Street's global chief executive will retire next year after more than 30 years with the global financial services firm. Jay Hooley took the reins at the US' second-oldest financial institution in 2010, having joined in 1986. Over the past three ...

AXA IM appoints APAC lead for real assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
AXA Investment Managers' real assets division appointed a head of Asia Pacific, having identified the region as key for the firm's geographical expansion. Currently serving as European head of transactions, Laurent Jacquemin has been promoted to lead ...

Westpac sells $12bn asset manager

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Westpac has entered into an agreement with a UK firm to sell its infrastructure manager subsidiary. Subject to due diligence and regulatory approvals, Northill will acquire Hastings Funds Management. The terms of the agreement are currently confidential. ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Financial markets got what they wished for from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
A global quantitative investment manager has turned the clock to re-evaluate its momentum strategies, using expertise in machine learning to build better alpha-capturing trading systems. In his recent trip to Australia, Man AHL chief scientist Anthony ...

More clarity needed on NAB redundancies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
The Financial Sector Union of Australia is concerned with NAB's lack of detail provided around plans to cut almost 20% of its staff by 2020. The FSU responded to the news of planned job cuts by demanding urgent talks with NAB chief executive Andrew ...

NAB to simplify operations via job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
About 4000 NAB employees look set to lose their jobs by 2020 as the bank further automates its business. Releasing its full year results, NAB said a reshaping of its workforce would see the creation of 2000 new jobs to 2020, though overall about 6000 ...

AZ NGA assets hit $6bn with latest acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
An AZ Next Generation Advisory subsidiary has acquired a $284 million client book, bringing the group's total assets under advice to more than $6 billion. Wise Planners, which AZ NGA acquired in 2015, bought the client book from AFM Advisers. AFM was ...

AMP rolling out enhanced goals-based advice business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
AMP will roll out the next evolution of its dedicated goals-based financial advice business this month with an expected step change being the way clients converse about their advice experience. AMP Advice will use real-time modelling to demonstrate ...