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Adviser cops 10-year sentence

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2023
... Financial Services Partners until 10 October 2016, which was owned by the ANZ Group/Insignia. Prior to that, he worked for Westpac, NAB and CBA, providing clients advice on shares and property. Police began investigating Nugara on 21 October 2019. Immigration ...

Skynet adviser stole $10.2m: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... 225 Burke Road, Glen Iris, but the funds were never used for this purpose. Court documents also show that he worked for Westpac, NAB and CBA, providing clients advice on shares and property. He was licensed as an authorised representative of Sentry Financial ...

ClearView welcomes chief of staff

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2023
... banking chief executive of ME Bank following its acquisition by BOQ. Before that, she held several senior positions at Westpac Group, including PMO lead, senior manager of enterprise change and transformation, and senior portfolio and enterprise operations ...

Industry high flyers join JANA board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2023
... board experience from the corporate and financial services sector. She currently serves as a non-executive director of Westpac Banking Corporation and Scentre Group and has previously held non-executive director roles at Telstra and Bank of Queensland. ...

Financial hardship neglect lands Westpac in court

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
ASIC is suing Westpac for neglecting more than 200 customer hardship requests over seven years, for which the bank blames "technology failure". ASIC commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court, alleging that Westpac failed to respond to ...

Westpac reports $1.8bn net profit, rise in stressed assets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023
Westpac has posted a net profit of $1.8 billion for 3Q23, driven by steady operating revenue and disciplined margin management. Despite inflationary headwinds which led to a rise in expenses by approximately 5% for the second half of 2023 compared to ...

Ignition poaches from Bravura Solutions

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... experience in the Australian wealth management industry, the last 16 years being at Bravura. He has also held tenures at Westpac and Macquarie Bank. In his new Sydney-based role, Speirs will be responsible for driving sales and developing strategic partnerships ...

PGIM client group lead in sudden departure

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023
... Australia at Schroders Investment Management. He started his financial services career as a business development manager with Westpac. This article first appeared in Industry Moves.

Westpac closes Specialist Businesses Division

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
Westpac has decided to fold the Specialist Businesses Division that once housed its platforms, superannuation and insurance businesses, redeploying its lead Jason Yetton. The bank has restructured in support of its next strategic phase, chief executive ...

Ownership changes spur upheaval in unit trust sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023
... billion, folded into Perpetual this year. It was previously part of BT Investment Management, which in turn was part-owned by Westpac. "Perpetual itself has seen significant negative funds flows from its unit trusts, losing 60% of its $1.7 billion total ...