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MAX awards recognise industry excellence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... Beeston has more than 28 years of experience in marketing, including stints at Telstra and HSBC. There was more to come for BTFG though, with its flagship wealth platform BT Panorama scoring Fintech Platform of the Year while the group took out the coveted ...

Spitfire acquires adviser platform, names chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... executive for more than nine years, has subsequently become Spitfire's new chief executive. Spitfire also appointed former BTFG head of product development and design, Anil Sagaram, as its new chief product officer. Sagaram spent 11 years at BTFG ...

Managed Account Awards finalists revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... Managed Account Canaccord Crystal Wealth Prime Financial Group Royston Capital Stanford Brown Viridian Advisory Innovation BTFG Investum JB Were Nucleus Wealth Praemium Resonant Australian Equities Antares Equities Blackmore Capital Elston Asset Management ...

Financial advice drags BTFG results

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... last six months as the group continues to offload its loss-making financial advice arm, its latest interim results show. BTFG has reduced its financial planning workforce by about 28%, from a total of 939 to 679 salaried and aligned financial advisers ...

Insurance expert joins $33bn super fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... Hostplus ($6.2bn), Equipsuper ($5.4bn) and QSuper ($3.8bn). This was at the expense of retail funds: MLC Super (-$1.5bn), BTFG (-$1.46bn) and ANZ Wealth (-$1.1bn), which recorded the largest outflows.

Colonial First State makes major fee cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... have the third-largest slice of the $811 billion platforms, wraps and master fund market with an almost 15% share, after BTFG and AMP, according to Strategic Insight. This is as at December 2018. This 15% market share held steady over last year. However ...

Industry funds eye SMSF market stronghold

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... ($9bn) experienced the largest inflows in 2018, followed by Sunsuper ($6.7bn) and Hostplus ($6.2bn). MLC Super (-$1.5bn), BTFG (-$1.46bn) and ANZ Wealth (-$1.1bn) recorded the largest outflows. KPMG head of asset and wealth management Paul Howes said ...

$1.5bn pulled from Pendal

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... from its Westpac/ BT Financial Group legacy books, which had about $20.5 billion in FUM. The bank announced in March that BTFG will cease to be a standalone division, along with plans to exit salaried and aligned financial advice by September 2019. Within ...

Remediation to hit Westpac earnings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... Group licences, but flagged difficulties in determining remediation for customers of advisers who no longer operate under BTFG's licences. "This remediation program is more challenging, including because many of the authorised representatives' files ...

Westpac exits personal advice, restructures leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... business and consumer; private wealth, platforms and investments and superannuation will move into an expanded business arm. The BTFG brand will be retained across super, platform and insurance offerings. The new consumer division will be led by current ...