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Industry fund appoints chief executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... departure to move to the chief executive role at MetLife Australia in January. D'Alessandro has extensive experience in wealth management and administration, having previously served as a general manager at Commonwealth Private. Earlier, he served ...

Perfect storm smashes AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... results on a conference call this morning, chief financial officer Gordon Lefevre said a range of issues converged upon its wealth operations in 2018, leading to the result. "It'd be fair to say the Australian wealth management business was hit by ...

Westpac mulls sale of in-house planners

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... 50% of Westpac Financial Planning. Financial Standard understands Westpac is in talks with an undisclosed Melbourne-based wealth management firm to offload about half of the planners attached to the Westpac Banking Corporation AFSL. The deal would see ...

Cardena Private Wealth names managing director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Cardena Private Wealth has appointed Ray Djani as managing director. Djani was nominated to the newly created role after holding a position on the board of the boutique wealth management and advisory firm and working as a consultant for the past three ...

Mercer names head of investment consulting

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... a newly created role. Michael Armitage will lead investment consulting activities in Australia within the institutional wealth team. Melbourne-based Armitage was most recently director of investment services at Milliman for more than five years, focused ...

Financial Standard launches FS Aspire CPD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
Financial Standard is drawing on its deep catalogue of financial advice, superannuation and wealth management content to roll out a new proprietary Continuing Professional Development program for financial services professionals. FS Aspire CPD offers ...

ACSA creates managed fund taskforce

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... experience. According to ACSA, participants - from both the perspectives of fund manufacturers and investors - have identified wealth platforms, super funds and individuals as "key blockages." The focus of the taskforce is set to be determined in accordance ...

Future Fund delivers 5.8%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
The sovereign wealth fund returned 5.8% in the year ending 31 December 2018, beating the median balanced superannuation fund return by a wide margin. The median balanced superannuation fund returned 0.6% in the year to 31 December and even the top quarter ...

NAB wealth exit delayed

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
The bank's separation from MLC is likely to be delayed. NAB said it was likely the planned divestment of its wealth management arm MLC would be delayed as far as June 2020. The bank said that while more detail was yet to arrive about the proposed legislative ...

NAB calls trading halt

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... issues. Meanwhile Thorburn refuses to blankly accept Hayne's criticisms. Former chief customer officer of consumer and wealth Andrew Hagger left the bank shortly after his appearance at the Royal Commission, when he played down the seriousness of ...