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Wealth manager makes senior appointment

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... business. Its corporate arm provides research, advisory and equity and debt capital market services to Australian institutions.

The PDS is weak: Rice Warner

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... laypersons. This has arisen in part due to the prescriptive nature of product disclosure," Rice Warner said. "Financial institutions and superannuation funds have used legalese to respond to their statutory legal requirements and regulators' guidelines." ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... He argues the uptake of these new technologies will reshape the global economy and disrupt established financial institutions. "There is clear and mounting evidence that AI, blockchain, IoT and big data are the building blocks of our future economy and ...

Banking sector losses continue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... value estimated to be around $10.2 billion. Mark Crowe, managing director, Brand Finance Australia, said: "Financial institutions are certainly familiar with being scrutinised closely and with the country's banks feeling the heat following the Royal ...

DNR expands distribution team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... Capital is an independent Australian investment management company that delivers client-focused investment solutions to institutions, advisers and individual investors.

Westpac appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... globally. "Over the past 27 years he has been a main board director of five of the world's leading financial institutions, including as executive and non-executive chair, chief executive and executive and non-executive director roles," Maxsted said. ...

What people really think about life commissions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... important attribute. Those qualities were more important than the adviser's qualifications (70%) or what financial institutions they were tied to (65%). Further, 46% of consumers with life insurance said they were worried about whether their insurance ...

HESTA names chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... "In the wake of the Hayne Royal Commission we have seen how critical a strong culture and trust are for financial institutions," she said. "The appointment of Andrew to the executive team recognises the vital importance we place in risk management and ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... also work with a broad range of parties - including asset owners, index providers, and regulatory and multilateral institutions - to advance sustainability in finance." So is this just another case of corporate greenwashing; a marketing strategy set ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... the UK will effectively remain in the EU's customs union and single market - but will be outside the political institutions and there will be no British members of the European Parliament" and by this time next year, the UK would be completely divorced ...