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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
... today, Westpac said it is establishing a new specialist businesses division, appointing former chief executive of Commonwealth Bank's NewCo Jason Yetton to lead the unit, effective May 18. In determining immediate priorities, Westpac chief executive ...

CBA sells CommSec Adviser Services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
The Commonwealth Bank has entered into an agreement to sell AUSIEX, which trades as CommSec Adviser Services, to a Japanese firm. Nomura Research Institute, a Japanese technology solutions and business consulting firm, has entered into an $85 million ...

University of Sydney scores win at CFA competition

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... Michael Toh, won the Global Champion award at the annual CFA Institute Research Challenge for their research on Commonwealth Bank. Jassis Chen, Jessica Wu, Sahil Arora, Tom Luo and Jeffrey Brown defended their analysis of CBA to a panel of judges, including ...

Healthcare outperforms as financials plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... 18.5% over 20 years." This is mostly thanks to global biotechnology company CSL, which recently unseated the Commonwealth Bank as Australia's largest company by market cap. "Because of its size (CSL represents about 70% of the S&P/ASX 200 healthcare ...

CBA appoints chief economist

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
Commonwealth Bank has appointed a new chief economist, set to take on the new role in addition to his responsibilities as the bank's head of global economic and markets research. Stephen Halmarick nabbed the new role this week, having been with ...

Count Financial bolsters leadership team

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Countplus sold its financial advisory business Count Financial to the Commonwealth Bank in 2011 for $373 million. It acquired the business back from the bank late last year for just $2.5 million and has since been ...

Is it time to lean on the Future Fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... liabilities. Bulk of people who lose their jobs are across retail, hospitality and accommodation and wouldn't be commonwealth employees," he said. "Even if you run that [debt] through Future Fund and don't have to issue as many bonds, you still ...

Count Financial adds tech integrations

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... time during the discovery and advice formulation process. With Countplus taking over Count Financial from the Commonwealth Bank in late 2019, the new tech integrations will remedy the lack of communication between accounting platforms and financial advice ...