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Nikko names new Australian managing director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Nikko Asset Management has named the man to replace Mike Davis at the head of its Australian business. Sam Hallinan will take up the role of managing director from 1 April. Hallinan was most recently general manager of investment management at NAB Asset ...

HLB Mann Judd launches Asia-focused business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
HLB Mann Judd has launched a new business targeting Asian investors looking for opportunities in Australia and New Zealand, as well as domestic businesses seeking to expand into the Asian region. HLB Mann Judd Chew, as it will be known, will partner ...

Productivity Commission to explore financial services exports

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The government has announced a Productivity Commission review aimed at boosting Australia's services exports across financial services and other industries. "With over 1.5 billion people moving into Asia's middle class over the next 15 years, we need ...

ANZ profit up 3.6% in "tougher environment"

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... the statement attributes this to exchange rate impacts and the development of "a new digital platform for Australian business". The group also saw a 9% rise in customer deposits and an 8% growth in net loans and advances. "ANZ has made a solid start ...

New Westpac chief executive scraps previous position

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
In his first day as Westpac chief executive, Brian Hartzer has restructured the company's Australian Financial Services division. Hartzer was previously head of the division, which represents more than half of Westpac's profits and comprises its business ...

Artisan Partners opens local office

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015
... Whitney Drayton. Drayton has now joined Artisan as a full-time employee and will have responsibility for the Australian business as managing director. Prior to starting Grey Pine, Drayton was director, institutional business development with Wellington ...

ATO cold calling to test SMSF trustees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... provider Topdocs said in a technical article that "examples have arisen where the ATO has refused to issue the [Australian business number] ABN because at least one director or trustee failed the test." Topdocs national manager of training and advice ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
It's official... Australia is in an income recession. Happy now, Jan? It may not be the generally-accepted definition of recession -- two consecutive quarters of contraction in output growth - but it'll do as long as we get the "R" word tag in the economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... survey comes out Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to speak at the annual Australian Business Economists conference dinner, Financial Services Council head John Brogden delivers a speech to the Australian Business Economists ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... the horse drink the water of cheap funding. But whoa boy, hold your horses! While NAB says that the jump in Australian business conditions have been driven by relatively broad-based improvement in sales and profits and "the falling AUD may have helped," ...