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BTFG faces possible union action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... Financial Advice employees impacted by a planned restructure of BT Financial Group's advice offering. Last week BT Financial Group told Financial Standard it was undertaking a review of its financial advice offering with a view to discontinuing the ...

BT Financial Group proposes advice restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
BT Financial Group is reviewing its business model for salaried financial advisers, with plans to discontinue the Virtual Advice offering - resulting in significant redundancies. BT Financial Advice has proposed the scrapping of its virtual advice initiative ...

CBA research lead heads to Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
Commonwealth Bank's executive manager of research has resigned to take up a role at Morningstar, the two companies confirmed. After 11 years in the role, Aman Ramrakha will now join Morningstar as director, manager research ratings APAC. He will ...

BT overhauls life cover limits and definitions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... policies. However, this will not be in relation to standard increases or customer-initiated changes. Separately, BT Financial Group announced it has added Challenger annuities to its Panorama platform. The group has also introduced a new BT Cash Management ...

Royal Commission challenges super regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... 149 of these are authorised representatives. In a statement provided to the Commission, Westpac subsidiary BT Financial Group admitted to an error that charged customers fees with respect to Investor Directed Portfolio Services (IDPS)-like products. ...

BNP Paribas product lead joins RBC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... Asia Pacific product team, creating a raft of new roles and recruiting from BNP Paribas Securities Services, BT Financial Group and State Street. RBC has appointed former BNP Paribas Security Services head of product Justin Burman as director, full service ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. He was recently Victorian State underwriting manager at BT Financial Group and prior to that a life and disability underwriter with Fidelity Life in New Zealand. Fiona Quinn was appointed as ...

Funds management veteran joins First State Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... Stewart was appointed to lead MetLife Australia in 2014. Prior to this, she held senior leadership roles with BT Financial Group and Merrill Lynch Investment Management. First State Super provides superannuation and advice to more than 800,000 members ...

BTFG will pay back grandfathered commissions to customers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
BT Financial Group will pass on the benefit of banning grandfathered commissions to its clients instead of retaining it, the Financial Services Council Summit heard. BT Financial Group general manager advice Michael Wright told Financial Standard the ...

Member takes $50 billion industry fund to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... Australia represented about half of all super funds under management, with the largest super fund signatories being BT Financial Group, AustralianSuper and Colonial First State. In a statement, Rest said it is unable to comment on ongoing legal matters ...