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Challenger appoints new chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Challenger's top job is seeing a change of guard as its chief executive of six years Brian Benari steps down to retire. Replacing Benari is Challenger's head of distribution, product and marketing Richard Howes. Benari will step down from the ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... impact on growth. Factset reports that US new home sales fell 5.5% to a 553,000 - the biggest decline since December 2016. On top of this August sales were revised down by 44,000 to 585,000, while June and July also revised lower. This came alongside ...

Downsizer scheme gains ground

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
The recently introduced downsizer contributions strategy is gaining traction, with the new scheme topping the list of adviser queries for the September quarter. BT Financial Group's technical team fielded about 3000 queries over the quarter, a significant ...

Chatbots will move from consumer finance to corporate: BAML

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... Merrill Lynch treasury fulfillment service and operations executive Jennifer Boussuge counted the move to mobile as one of her top developments in the payments industry for the coming year. "I think the business clients will continue to mimic the consumer ...

NEOS unveils underwriting and sales team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... technical capability, but also in terms of interpersonal skills. "Our recruitment policy is to only recruit people who are in the top 5% of what they do. This means that customers and advisers will only ever deal with people who are experts, who aren't ...

Australian retirement system weakens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
An ageing population is placing increased pressure on the Australian government as the nation's ability to ensure individual's retirement is both adequate and economically sustainable is diminishing. Australia has slipped down the ranks of the ...

NAB still unclear on true impact of misconduct

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn failed to give an exact number of clients hit by the bank's misconduct as he fronted the parliamentary inquiry into major banks in Canberra this morning. Thorburn said he expects the total number of customers ...

Chief economist update: When QE turns to QT

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
There's no shortage of rationales explaining the on-going heightened volatility on Wall Street. Throw a dart into a dartboard of reasons and you'll likely to hit a rational one - rising US bond yields, expectations of a more aggressive Fed ...

Charity comparator to launch premium service

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... launching a new premium version which will give donors greater access to data, including into the charities' governance on top of data on funding mix, revenues and expenses that the free version offers. "The idea is to provide a greater degree of initial ...

ANZ chief says remediation is "distracting"

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... revelations from the Royal Commission. The Standing Committee on Economics panel put it down to cultural problems that came from the top. Elliot said some customers had to wait 15 years for refunds when the bank's system calculated home loan products ...