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AIA reports 23% growth in new business

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... growth strategy, the prudent management of our balance sheet and the resilience of our portfolio of life insurance operations in diversified markets across the Asia-Pacific region," AIA Group chief executive and president Mark Tucker said. "The Asia-Pacific ...

FSC report warns of default super 'turmoil'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... cited areas such as liquidity risk, operational risk, the risk that some small delisted funds will need to wind up operations, concentration risk, and the potentially damaging effect on the already-struggling group insurance industry. FSC chief executive ...

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... quadrupled its funds under management to $20 billion despite challenging times. Anthony Kirkham, the head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management is due to celebrate his 15th anniversary at the US$490 billion fixed income manager next month. ...

BT launches Avaloq-powered platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... roll out this important new phase in Australian Financial Services," BT Financial Group general manager, platforms and operations John Shuttleworth said. Avaloq Regional General Manager Asia Pacific Peter Scott said: "The going live at BT Financial Group ...

Giant NSW fund names investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... general manager of investment and client strategy, and Jonathan Green as general manager of investment implementation and operations. McKenna is chief investment officer of WorkCover NSW, while Green is head of investments at TCorp. The Committee members ...

Hedge funds risk collapse without middle office upgrades

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
Hedge funds are under increasing pressure to beef up their middle office operations as result of increased institutional investor scrutiny of manager reporting and disclosure standards, according to global post-trade technology provider Omgeo. Hedge ...

UK has overtaken Australia for platform innovation: Bravura

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... and quickly roll it out to their clients. Illustrating how this operates in practice, he said that 90% of their UK operations were in handling outsourced technology services for wealth group platforms whereas in Australia this accounts for only about ...

Botte replaces Sheehan as My Adviser managing director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... more than 20 years' experience in the financial services industry and has held senior roles in marketing, as well as operations and practice management within a range of companies, including IOOF, Zurich and National Mutual.

Big Sky appoints former ANZ exec

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... appointed former ANZ executive, Robert Bell as chief executive. Bell was previously the chief executive of ANZ's Japan operations. Bell formerly worked as ANZ's chief of staff directing all activity in the managing director's office and representing ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... also impose temporary suspension of parts of BNP's dollar-handling business in the US - key to any major bank's US operations - for all of 2015. Sources say the suspension will take place progressively since BNP has operations underway. The bank has ...