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Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
Parametric has teamed up with a California-based smart beta and asset allocation specialist to deliver a strategy for Australian institutional investors aiming to top the standard 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative ...

CBA restructures executive leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank made a raft of changes to its executive lineup following the announcement of plans to demerge its wealth management business. Current chief risk officer David Cohen has been promoted to deputy chief executive, charged with leading ...

CBA to demerge CFS, mulls further CommInsure sell-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank is demerging its wealth management business and undertaking a strategic review of its general insurance arm. Standing as a separately listed wealth management business, CFS Group will comprise Colonial First State, Colonial First State ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
A former Australian rugby union centre is joining a UK-based equities manager as its managing director for Australia. The firm is also launching an Aussie-based global equities unit trust seeded with $130 million from an industry superannuation fund. ...

QIC continues US expansion

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
The chief executive of $85 billion investment manager QIC has two new direct reports. QIC appointed Leonie Wilkinson as the new executive director of its global clients and marketing division, shifting her from her current role at the investment giant ...

Sequoia sells direct equities business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Sequoia Financial Group noted the sale of its direct equities business in a market update. Sequoia said it was selling Sequoia Direct as part of a "simplication of its overall operation by reducing the number of AFSLs operated within the Sequoia group." ...

BTFG adviser distribution team reshuffles

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
BT Financial Group head of adviser distribution Jo Moxey is leaving her role to pursue another opportunity within Westpac. A BTFG spokesperson confirmed the move this morning and said the group is proposing further changes inside its adviser distribution ...

FASEA names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority appointed a new chief executive from APRA. Formerly general manager of APRA's specialised institutions division, Stephen Glenfield will take on the role from 1 August 2018. He replaces inaugural ...

BT Financial Advice cuts grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
BT Financial Advice is scrapping grandfathered commissions, effective October 2018. Commissions for products sold by financial advisers across the Westpac, St.George, Bank of Melbourne and BankSA network will no longer be paid on BT products or those ...

Priestley resigns from ASX, Future Fund boards

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
J.P. Morgan Australia non-executive chairman Robert Priestley has resigned from the boards of the Australian Securities Exchange and the Future Fund following the ACCC pursuing a criminal cartel conduct investigation. Announcing his decision, Priestley ...