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Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... Advice offering, which triggered urgent workplace meetings between the Finance Sector Union and impacted BTFG employees. HSBC quietly exits financial advice HSBC quietly called time on its Financial Advice arm in July, joining three of Australia's ...

Natixis consolidates, appoints executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... clients." Hughes joins Natixis from Gottex Fund management where he was the managing director, multi-asset solutions. He was also HSBC Insurance's group chief investment officer, where he managed USD $120 billion across 22 countries. Hughes will join ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... (BBVA.MC), Italy's UniCredit (CRDI.MI), France's BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), Dutch bank ING (INGA.AS) and Britain's HSBC (HSBA.L) are the most exposed to Turkey and vulnerable to its free-falling currency." Spain's BBVA controls 49.9% of Turkish ...

Super fund welcomes industry veteran to trustee board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... Trustee Corporation. Carol Austin has over 30 years experience in the industry. She is currently a non-executive director at HSBC Bank Australia and the Grattan Institute. She chairs the ACT Government's investment advisory board and is a member ...

SPECIAL FEATURE: Breaking the custody mould

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... trades. J.P. Morgan leverages technology from markets-based product Athena to its custody and funds administration business. HSBC too is working on a new platform called OneCustody, alongside working to develop APIs to give clients increased access to ...

Westpac names independent director

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... October 2018; she will also join the bank's risk and compliance committee, and its Asia advisory board. Fung's tenure at HSBC spans about two decades; seven of those years were spent serving as group general manager of HSBC Holdings. From 2011 to 2015 ...

Frontier names head of real assets arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... Prior to that, Demir spent seven years in London with Babcock and Brown, and worked as a director of power and utilities at HSBC. Originally from Sydney, Demir has also worked at ABN AMRO and NAB. Her international experience spans Europe, Asia and North ...

Wealth manager appoints private wealth lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
A diversified financial services and legal firm appointed a former HSBC head of wealth management to lead its private wealth business. Sydney-based Aura Group is welcoming Andrew Coloretti to the role of executive director, private wealth. Bringing ...

HSBC quietly exits financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
HSBC Australia is shuttering its retail financial advice division. The closure follows a strategic review and HSBC Australia did not disclose how many staff members are affected. A HSBC spokesperson said: "We have ceased offering retail financial planning ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... team nationally and enhance the newly-launched underwriting platform for the benefit of advisers and customers. Jones joined HSBC Insurance Asia Pacific in 2013 as its head of life underwriting and operations based in Hong Kong. He was promoted to chief ...