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Sequoia Financial Group grows board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... group investment manager at ING. He also has extensive experience in stockbroking, including as head of equities for Deutsche Bank Australia, director of institutional sales at County Natwest Sercurities (now part of Citigroup) and director of equity ...

Financial services pay top dollar for compliance, IT skills

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
In the wake of recent financial services and bank scandals, job opportunities in risk management and compliance within the sector are forecast to boom in 2018, Robert Walters' latest salary survey shows. With large-scale remediation projects in banking ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Wells Fargo has become the third major US bank to take action on gender and ethnicity pay gaps. Responding to shareholder pressure the bank released the findings of its most recent pay equity study. It showed women working for Wells Fargo in the US ...

CBA purchase shifts AIA Australia executive team

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... of people and culture to oversee its Australian and New Zealand workforce, a direct result of acquiring the Commonwealth Bank life insurance business. The newest addition to AIA Australia's executive team is Charlotte Ward, who will be based at the Melbourne ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying reason for investors' increased appetite for the euro. ...

CBA chair says culture needs improvement

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
In responding to APRA's ongoing prudential inquiry into the bank, Commonwealth Bank chair Catherine Livingstone acknowledged "there are aspects of our culture where we could improve." APRA issued an update on its progress with the inquiry, saying that ...

CMC Markets hires head of sales trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... development. Glover also has international experience under his belt, working in the UK as a financial adviser for Spanish bank Santander and Halifax, a division of the Bank of Scotland. Glover said he is excited to join the CMC Markets team in Australia. ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... higher, there also wouldn't be sufficient demand to pull consumer prices up. A dynamic not lost on the Australian central bank. In its August 2017 'Statement on Monetary Policy', the RBA stated that, "expectations for low real wage growth remain a key ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... capital appreciation and yield." "Recent years have also seen growing interest from investors in alternative credit such as bank loans and emerging market bonds, and we expect this asset class will continue to be popular among Asia Pacific investors ...

Channel Capital appoints distribution director from Janus Henderson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... EMEA and APAC regions. He was also previously an audit-in-charge at KPMG and a financial analyst at Westpac Institutional Bank. At the same time as Slessar's appointment, Channel Capital also hired Angela Dovitsas as head of marketing, communications ...