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Fixed income manager opens Australian office

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
A European fixed income and active management specialist has opened an Australian office. BlueBay Asset Management appointed Ciaran McAssey to head its new Melbourne office. He has worked at the firm for more than five years and is currently head of ...

Liquidnet promotes Australian leader, names successor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
Liquidnet's former head of Australia, Tristan Baldwin, recently relocated to Hong Kong following his promotion as regional head of sales for Asia-Pacific. Joining the global institutional trading platform as its new head of Australia is Murrough O'Brien. ...

Financial lifestyle coaching: The future of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... allowing advice clients to be as hands-on or off as they please. "Clients want to be excited about their financial future. The sale of a product is irrelevant to them. Having tools that they can engage with are important, so when they interact with their ...

Independent director joins Westpac board

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
Westpac appointed a technology and innovation expert as an independent, non-executive director to its board. With about 30 years of commercial and business management experience, Nerida Caesar will join the bank's board effective September 1. Caesar ...

Westpac halts $14bn asset manager sale

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
Westpac has ended discussions regarding the sale of a $14 billion asset management subsidiary after the prospective bidder decided not to proceed. Charter Hall had originally entered talks with Westpac regarding the potential acquisition of Hastings ...

Fidelity hires new director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
Fidelity International appointed a new lead to help expand its Australian wholesale sales team. Andrew Mathie joins Fidelity as a director of wholesale sales for Australia after serving as a senior key account manager at Vanguard Investments. Sydney-based ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...

Annuity sales boost Challenger results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Challenger's life segment continued to deliver in the 12 months to June as a result of the annuity provider diversifying its product range and expanding in to partnerships outside of Australia. The life business reported sales of $5 billion underpinned ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... revelation that ASIC is concerned some CBA customers may have been given personal advice rather than general advice during the sale of the bank's superannuation product - Essential Super. The bank's statement was kept short, noting: "we continue to discuss ...

Macquarie and Canadian pension fund buy SA government asset

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... right to receive an on-going royalty stream which can be invested in infrastructure and essential services. Commenting on the sale, South Australian treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said the deal was "an absolutely outstanding result for the state," adding ...