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JANA hires quantitative applications lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... portfolio strategy. Over his nearly 10 years at VFMC, he also sat on the investment committee. He previously held roles at Challenger, County Investments (Invesco), National Australia Bank and Prudential. Creating this role reflects JANA's desire to ...

Fintech off to slow start in 2019: KPMG

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... perspective. Finally, KMPG reports that open banking continues to be a big driver of investment for both incumbent and challenger banks. It is expected to be the catalyst in developing partnerships that allow fintechs to grow, and open opportunities ...

Advice software firm appoints sales lead

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... Stanford Brown which he joined as a business development manager in October last year. Prior to that, he worked at Challenger for almost a decade, after spending 15 years at Macquarie in various business development roles. WealthO2 managing director ...

Much review about nothing

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
The Government's recently announced review of Australia's retirement income system has been met with confusion by some of the industry's big players. "Speaking at the Bloomberg buy-side forum in Sydney recently, the newly-minted Assistant ...

Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... diversified financials, Janus Henderson scored 64.5 (down 11%), Perpetual scored 70.6 (down 1%), IOOF had 76.1 (up 7.1%). Challenger (83.2), ASX (85.3), Computershare (86.4) and Macquarie Group (95.5) all scored better than the median.

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
KPMG has appointed a life insurance lead partner who previously held executive roles at AMP and Challenger. Pauline Blight-Johnston joins the consulting firm's actuarial and financial risk practice on October 8. She was most recently general manager ...

Super delivers for the masses: Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
A new Challenger white paper suggests the superannuation system is broadly effective and delivering objectives for retirees - but it is still leaving some members behind. Citing APRA figures, members aged 65 and over have $800 billion tucked away in ...

FSC adds to board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... wealth management joined the FSC board. AMP chief executive, wealth management Alex Wade joined the board along with Challenger chief financial officer Andrew Tobin and chief executive officer of NewCo at the Commonwealth Bank Jason Yetton.

Yarra hires head of macro, strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
A highly-regarded economist has jumped to Yarra Capital Management in a role that will advise the firm's fixed income and equities teams. Tim Toohey will work closely with Yarra on financial markets outlook and asset allocation, as its new head ...

Industry fund appoints deputy CIO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... us." Prior to joining Cbus in 2013 Chatfield worked in asset consulting, funds management and research with Frontier, Challenger, UniSuper and Lonsec. Before moving into investment he worked in the superannuation group at KPMG.