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How wealth management must respond to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Global consulting firm McKinsey & Company has issued a new report on how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact wealth management in the Asia Pacific region, including what might happen if the virus continues to spread. "Past epidemic crises have had sharp ...

Helping everyone helps women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... a result," said report co-author Thomas Clarke from UTS Business School. "The statistics are irrefutable; the latest McKinsey reports demonstrate that the global economy is losing $25 trillion in productivity as a result of discrimination against women ...

Westpac names business arm chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... and regional head of retail banking and wealth management for Latin America. Prior to HSBC, Lima spent over 13 years at McKinsey & Company, leading client relationships across emerging and developed markets in retail and wholesale banking and wealth. ...

Australia ahead in gender diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... space, she notes. Despite US firms publicly declaring a commitment to gender diversity in the last four years, research by McKinsey & Company found this has not translated into meaningful progress in 2018. This is because firms are failing to treat gender ...

Former Westpac GM joins APRA review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... practicable." In addition to her roles at Westpac, Smith-Gander was previously a partner at global management consultant McKinsey & Company, and currently serves as a non-executive director of Wesfarmers. Joining Smith-Gander on the review panel will ...

Global iShares lead promoted, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... the distribution of iShares products and BlackRock's suite of active products. Ramji is a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, having led its asset management and retirement practice areas. The appointments come at the same time as news BlackRock ...

Gender split sees new investment industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... investors. The diverse perspectives of a team ensure innovative thinking and well tested, robust ideas," he said. Citing a McKinsey & Company report from January, AVCAL said companies in the top quartile for gender diversity within executive teams were ...

BlackRock appoints regional head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... more for our clients that live in or want to invest in the region," Fink said. Buckingham joined BlackRock in 2014 from McKinsey and Co. She was BlackRock's head of Americas corporate strategy. She has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ...

Women missing from C-suite lineups

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... services companies, even though they account for more than half of the entry-level workforce. According to new research from McKinsey & Co, women are also 24% less likely than their male peers to attain their first promotion, even though the two cohorts ...

LGIAsuper adds investment veteran to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... resigned earlier this year. On April 16, LGIAsuper ended a five-month search for a chief executive, appointing former McKinsey & Company implementation leader Kate Farrar. Earlier this year, the Queensland-based fund amped up its stake in an infrastructure ...