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Inquiry has Macquarie Private Wealth in its sights

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... concerns are being addressed and that there are no other compliance deficiencies." The report also reveals that ASIC senior executive leader for financial adviser Joanna Bird believed that Macquarie Private Wealth had "systemic failings of compliance ...

Advice clients don't want managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
AFA Adviser of the Year Jenny Brown has said that clients are simply not interested in investing in managed funds. "Clients don't want managed funds. I'm sorry to all the fund managers in the room but they just don't understand them," she said. Brown ...

Future Fund staff bonuses stun public sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... employees for an average payment of $91,000. But causing the outrage is that a bonus of $633,000 was paid to one senior executive employee albeit who that was has not been disclosed due to Public Service Commission privacy provisions. Former department ...

Macquarie exec posed as family office to learn secrets

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
A senior executive at Macquarie Group posed as an employee of a fake family office to gather confidential financial information from a competitor. An investigation by the Australian Financial Review found that head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management ...

OneVue adds former IOOF exec to leadership team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Managed account provider OneVue has made more additions to its executive team in the run up to its IPO, adding two new senior executives. Former head of compliance at IOOF Thomas Robertson has been appointed as head of corporate services and former ...

FSC appoints AMP exec to the board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... board. Pauline Blight-Johnston has more than 20 years' experience in the financial services industry and has held senior executive positions in life insurance, both in Australia and overseas. She joined AMP in early 2013 and is responsible for AMP's ...

Don't be afraid of sales, industry funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
Industry superannuation funds must embrace a sales culture if they are to compete with retail funds in an increasingly open market, according to Metta Group director and AustralianSuper consultant Clive Wilkinson. Speaking to an audience of not-for-profit ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... for but what happens to consumer spending after. As former Bank of Japan executive director and is currently senior executive fellow of economic research at Fujitsu Research Institute, Hideo Hayakawa, explained, "The key point is whether June and July ...

NAB and ABS employees arrested for insider trading fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... exchange derivatives. "They were using online margin foreign exchange derivatives to have the upper edge," ASIC senior executive leader of markets enforcement Chris Savundra said. The two suspects are 25 and 26 years old and would have met at university ...

Westpac appoints head of private bank in Asia

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... private banking proposition in the region." Bala Swaminathan, general manager, Westpac Asia, added: "Attracting a senior executive with Francis' depth of experience is testament to the strong reputation we are building in Asia. It demonstrates our sustained ...