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Count Financial makes growth-focused hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... Financial has hired an experienced practice development manager, whose resume features the likes of Affinia, Commonwealth Bank and AMP, to ramp up its growth strategy. Chris Burton has been appointed as Count's practice development manager, and started ...

Former CBA executive nabs industry body lead role

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
A former Commonwealth Bank executive has nabbed a new chief executive role, following an extensive national recruitment process. The Insurance Council of Australia has announced the appointment of Andrew Hall as chief executive and executive director ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... 2019." That's the household side of the equation. Businesses are also none too enthusiastic. The latest Commonwealth Bank Flash Composite PMI survey for May indicated continued decline in business activity despite gradual easing of social restrictions ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... thrive through the next decade." "Proactively respond rather than react." Belinda Allen, senior economist at Commonwealth Bank, said housing and business investment in likely to remain weak for a while longer. "Generally business investment falls quite ...

ASIC secures $160m in remediation over junk credit insurance

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... offerings from ANZ, Australian Central Credit Union, Bank of Queensland, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Citigroup, Commonwealth Bank, Credit Union Australia, Latitude Finance Australia, NAB, Suncorp-Metway and Westpac. ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester said ...

Processes are the problem, not people: Count Financial

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... to process issues not people, according to Count Financial. Countplus acquired the Count Financial from the Commonwealth Bank late last year for just $2.5 million and has since been working to transform Count Financial into a more profitable business ...

CBA sells 55% of CFS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Commonwealth Bank is set to offload 55% of Colonial First State to a $335 billion global investment firm. Announced to the ASX this morning, CBA has entered an agreement to sell 55% of CFS to private equity firm KKR. CBA said the transaction implies ...

Industry fund reshuffles leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... Super as chief strategy officer in 2016. Prior to joining the fund, Nair held executive management roles at the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac. Jason Theng will step into the chief risk officer role now, being promoted from his position as executive manager ...

Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... scenario inflation is 1 to 11/2 per cent in 2021 and gradually picks up further from there." The drop in the Commonwealth Bank Composite PMI for Australia (that was released on the same day as the RBA's Board meeting) to a record low of 21.7 in April ...

Westpac to review business units

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
Westpac has determined several of its business units lack sufficient scale, including superannuation and investments, and is set to launch a review aimed at simplifying the group. Announcing results today, Westpac said it is establishing a new specialist ...