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Financial Standard's top stories of 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
What were Financial Standard subscribers reading in 2017? Check out the most click-worthy stories of this year. The biggest stories of 2017 spanned new super funds, major strategic partnerships, landmark ASIC investigations, long-serving industry executives ...

New Year, new chair at industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
A $4.5 billion industry fund will welcome a new chair and director to its board in the New Year. Described as a building industry stalwart, Wallace Trohear will chair BUSSQ from 1 January 2018, bringing more than 50 years' experience in building and ...

HESTA appoints new CIO

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
HESTA is welcoming the next chapter of its investment team development, appointing a new chief investment officer. Sonya Sawtell-Rickson will oversee the fund's $37 billion portfolio of investments and lead the internal team in asset and risk allocation ...

ClearView hire aligns growth plan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... ClearView managing director Simon Swanson said the appointments position ClearView well, especially following the addition of Sony Life Insurance (Sony Life) to the ClearView register as a strategic shareholder in October. "We're excited about working ...

EQT appoints Rio Tinto super exec

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
Equity Trustees has appointed a new head of trustee services. Grant Currie joins EQT from Rio Tinto's superannuation fund, where he was principal risk and compliance officer. He joined Rio Tinto in 2012, and was also secretary to the fund's audit, risk ...

ClearView welcomes new strategic shareholder

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... has acquired a strategic stake in ClearView Wealth and has announced a collaboration partnership between the two companies. Sony Life Insurance (Sony Life) has agreed with Crescent Capital Partners to acquire a 14.9% stake in Clearview at a price of ...

Rimmer departs in EQT management shake-up

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
After promoting four members of its corporate trustees services team in September, Equity Trustees has made further management changes as part of its ongoing restructure. The goal of these new changes, according to EQT, is to "more clearly define management ...

Xero product chief steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... Bing! search engine among other duties. Prior to that, he held numerous other senior roles at Microsoft since joining from Sony in 1997. At Xero, Norton managed product strategy and partnerships. Following Norton's departure back to his home in Seattle ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... a record high. Tokyo surged 1.13 per cent, or 178.90 points, to finish Thursday at 16,067.57 thanks to the weaker yen but Sony plunged after warning of another huge loss this financial year. Sydney edged up 0.16 per cent, or 8.5 points, to 5,415.8 and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... plunge with a fall of 8.5 per cent to 3.17 euros. HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed, with a stronger yen and a slump in Sony shares pushing Tokyo's Nikkei lower despite data showing the Japanese economy accelerated in the first quarter. Wall Street ...