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Former Selfwealth chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... Tokyo as chief executive Asia Pacific and other senior capacities at major banks including HSBC, Commonwealth Bank, and Westpac. Prior to his role at Selfwealth, Keary was chief executive Asia Pacific for Ignition Advice between 2021 and 2023. Currently ...

Morningstar DBRS expands into regional Australia

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... director of financial services ratings and occupied senior positions in corporate banking and debt markets at Barclays and Westpac. Morningstar's APAC chief compliance officer Sean Cook has also been appointed to join the analytical and client service ...

Allianz Retire+ rejigs executive team, product and marketing chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... in May 2021. Before Allianz Retire+ he was in senior marketing roles at Certane, FIIG Securities, Macquarie Group and Westpac. Aboud joins a host of staffers who have exited the business in recent months, including founder Adrian Stewart who left the ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... Citi and State Street. McDermid spent two years at Rest, with most of her career at National Australia Bank, KPMG and Westpac. Channel Capital said operational risk has become a bigger focus for institutional investors and regulators as investment structures ...

APRA lifts final Westpac capital add-on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... 2019 as a result of its poor risk governance self-assessments. At the end of 2019, APRA slapped another $500 million on Westpac for more fundamental deficiencies in its risk management framework, this time relating to anti-money laundering. In October ...

Ex-Qantas Super private markets lead lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... Ambrian as chief operating officer, and Murray Rolfe joined State Super's investment operations team. Separately, Westpac appointed former Deutsche Bank investment professional Stefanie Holtze-Jen as deputy chief investment officer of private wealth ...

Iress adds AI chief to drive innovation

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... through AI for three years. Before AWS, he was a program leader in IT for three of the four major banks in Australia - Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and NAB between 2008 and 2017. He also brings experience from Citibank and DXC Technology earlier ...

Acenda Group names finance, risk leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... officer at BT Financial Group and acting deputy chief financial officer and general manager of enterprise investments at Westpac. Last December, Nippon Life announced it will acquire Resolution Life. Upon completion of the transaction, which is subject ...

Picture Wealth named fastest-growing planner: report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... number growing rapidly." Allan Maitland, the company's chief executive and formerly the head of consumer bank for Westpac in WA, added that part of the company's appeal is its ability to cater for advisers, self-employed or not, to continue providing ...

VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... Asian-focused, long-only, high conviction equities fund manager. During her career, Taylor has held roles with IAG, Merrill Lynch, Westpac and the Reserve Bank of Australia. In her farewell message, Taylor highlighted several achievements during her ...