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Adam Willis joins DWS distribution team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
DWS has hired Adam Willis as a senior client coverage specialist in its client coverage division across the Australian and New Zealand markets. Willis is Sydney-based and reports to DWS head of client Coverage Division Australia and New Zealand Lidia ...

ASIC highlights strategic priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
ASIC has released its corporate plan, outlining strategic priorities and its course of action for the next four years, with a particular focus on the retirement sector. The regulator highlighted four strategic priorities. One of its primary focuses ...

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
Laura Wright has retired from NGS Super, with an acting chief executive now in charge. Wright's retirement follows 35 years in industry superannuation and 14 years with NGS Super, the last four as chief executive. In the early 1990s, she also served ...

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
FIIG Securities has appointed Alex Welch as its chief executive, taking over from founder and managing director Jim Stening. Welch will step into the role next Monday week and be based in Sydney while Stening will remain on the FIIG board as a non-executive ...

Transurban names new chair

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
Transurban has named Craig Drummond as its chair, replacing Lindsay Maxsted who will retire this year. The current non-executive director will replace Maxsted following the annual general meeting in October. Drummond joined the board in 2021 and has ...

Strong wage growth lags inflation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and employment minister Tony Burke said they are pleased to see strong wages growth but noted it's still well short of inflation. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows the Wage Price Index rose 2.6% in the year to June ...

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 ...

ASIC response to Freedom Insurance saga continues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
... Life and Health Australia and ClearView Life Assurance. ASIC has been working on the Freedom case since, having implemented a ban on 'cold call' telephone sales of direct life insurance and consumer credit insurance in 2019 and suing both the company's ...