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Pinnacle splashes $50m on acquisitions

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... Berkshire Capital as sell side advisors and Hall & Wilcox as legal advisor. The NAB-backed Metrics Credit Partners, a non-bank lender, has $2.5 billion in funds under management. Of this, $1.7 billion is from institutional investors, $730 million from ...

Australian Unity expands investment bond offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
Australian Unity announced 13 new investment managers have joined its Lifeplan Investment Bond. The national health, wealth and living mutual company also unveiled 24 new investment bond options for its investment bond offering. Lifeplan Investment ...

Westpac names independent director

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... board as an independent non-executive director. Anita Fung joins the banking group on 1 October 2018; she will also join the bank's risk and compliance committee, and its Asia advisory board. Fung's tenure at HSBC spans about two decades; seven of those ...

Advice firm partners for lending expertise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
A boutique financial advice business is expanding its service offering by way of a strategic alliance with a Sydney-based brokerage firm. Cardena Private Wealth and Thyme Financial Group are joining forces to provide Cardena clients with access to specialist ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
The big news overnight comes courtesy of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) or rather speculations (again) that it's discussing possible changes to its looser-than-loose monetary policy. There are so many combinations and permutations as to what the BOJ would ...

Sunsuper appoints former AustralianSuper executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... financial services industry, including as AustralianSuper's group executive engagement, advocacy and brand. Williams was also Bank of Melbourne's head of brand and marketing. She also spent time at NAB, working in wealth, commercial banking ...

Three attempts at adviser exam is fair: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
Three attempts to pass the Financial Adviser Examination is welcomed by Financial Standard readers, the publication's latest spot poll shows. Overall, the exam's content, structure and 65% scaled pass score as proposed by the Financial Adviser ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... brought back trepidation over an escalation of the trade war) and most recently he went on attack against his own central bank - the US Federal Reserve. Apparently, in his mind the Fed's rate rises are undermining "all that we have done". Two interest ...

Macrovue appoints ANZ Wealth executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... months. Macrovue's new chief marketing officer is Scott Spencer. He has worked in senior marketing roles at Macquarie Bank, CommSec and most recently at ANZ Wealth as a senior marketing leader. The fintech's client base is growing by about 10% ...

SMSFs overlooking off-the-plan property risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... retirees lose significant amounts of their pension due to failed property investment, he added. Westpac and its subsidiaries the Bank of Melbourne, St. George Bank and BankSA will no longer offer SMSF loans effective Tuesday 31 July 2018. "We continually ...