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Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... chief digital officer. CBA exec to head Westpac Institutional Bank - CBA executive general manager of retail products and third party banking Lyn Cobley has been appointed to head Westpac's institutional bank. JP Morgan appoints infrastructure head - ...

Barrett firm acquires Pride Advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... wealth management market they're in, and in our case we like the retail market, so not wholesale or institutional." The third is "process", Barrett added, and this included firms' technology deployment plans and their EBIT ratio as a percentage of their ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... "more" regulatory information in the next year and 28% expect that the increase will be "significantly more." More than a third of the firms surveyed spend at least a whole day every week tracking and analysing regulatory change. "Global regulatory change ...

World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests coal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Norway's Parliament has voted to divest further coal holdings from the country's US$882 billion sovereign wealth fund. Specifically, the country's finance committee will sell ownership in companies with more than a 30% stake in coal-related business. ...

Members less likely to switch from workplace funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Members are two thirds more likely to switch their personal super funds than their workplace super fund, explaining why retail wealth groups are ramping up their political campaign to decouple superannuation from industrial awards. Roy Morgan has just ...

Mercer and Bravura combine for super admin

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Acting as a third party administrator, Mercer recently announced it will use Bravura's unified wealth management platform Sonata to administer multiple books of superannuation and KiwiSaver business for clients across Australia and New Zealand. A large ...

CBA exec to head Westpac Institutional Bank

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... Institutional Bank (WIB) following the departure of Rob Whitfield. CBA executive general manager of retail products and third party banking Lyn Cobley will head WIB, Westpac confirmed. Cobley will replace Whitfield, who had been in the role since 2009 ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Japan's manufacturing PMI edged up from 49.9 in April to a barely positive 50.9 this month and China's contracted for a third month to 49.1 in May but above April's print of 48.9. Yes Virginia, it's the state of the planet as we knew it last week and ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... 15 mandates over the past 18 months came from global alternative managers with global alternatives now accounting for a third of Perpetual's total FUA within its responsible entity business compared to less than a quarter at the start of 2014. In the ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... financial advice complaints process," NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn said. The role and its scope have been verified by third party and specialist in governance Cameron Ralph. "The review led by Cameron Ralph was to ensure no conflicts of interest ...