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Asian family office sets up in Melbourne

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... building on its regional network of family office clients and shifting its focus to corporations and institutions. The Vector general manager has over 20 years in investment and treasury management throughout the region, where he held leadership roles ...

ART appoints insurance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... key decisions. With over 28 years in the financial services industry, he is a seasoned leader with deep expertise across general insurance, life insurance and superannuation. Before arriving at ART in 2020, Finney spent 12 years at Suncorp Life, most ...

Iress hires wealth tech experts

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... firm, has made two hires to its Asia Pacific wealth team. Callum Masson and Martin Johnson have been appointed executive general manager of product and technology and general manager of technology respectively. In the newly created role, Masson will ...

ASIC slaps FIIG Securities with lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... resources to ensuring its cybersecurity measures were up to scratch. It relied on the chief operating officer and the general IT infrastructure team to take care of cybersecurity, but they all had a wide range of other responsibilities and did not have ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
The financial services industry has made modest inroads with gender parity, and closing the wealth and financial literacy gap, but the reality is accelerated action is needed from the government and private sector to tackle entrenched inequalities as ...

Westpac's Yetton chooses to move on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... period marks Yetton's second stint at Westpac, having previously held senior roles between 2009 and 2015, including general manager of retail and regional banking and later group executive of retail and business banking. Prior to that, Yetton spent ...

Axius names executive director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Axius Partners, a capital formation and advisory firm, has welcomed a new executive director. Phil Filippelis joins from Commonwealth Bank where he served as head of global portfolio solutions and deputy investment chief. "We are delighted to have Phil ...

Vale Donald Williams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Donald Williams, co-founder and former chief investment officer of Platypus Asset Management, is being remembered following his passing. Williams began his career as an analyst at AMP in 1990. In 1994 he became a commodity analyst at Credit Suisse First ...

Super, insurance, and bank boards' 'poor practices' targeted by APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
The boards of superannuation trustees, insurers, and banks are on notice, with APRA proposing changes to "strengthen and streamline" governance requirements. The regulator has released eight proposals in what marks the first "significant update" of ...

Praemium names interim CFO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... Moore's experience covers finance, strategy and mergers and acquisitions, including over 20 years at NAB as an executive general manager responsible for group finance, strategy and development. Praemium chief executive Anthony Wamsteker said Moore ...