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Board appointment at Westpac

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... KPMG's global board and was the chair of the global investment committee. He's held several senior roles at KPMG including regional head of audit for Asia Pacific, national managing partner for audit in Australia, head of KPMG financial services, and ...

BlackRock names head of financial institution

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... insurance and asset management client base. Her most recent roles were head of global client group for Hong Kong and regional head of insurance coverage for APAC ex-Japan. Kim helped rebuild the firm's institutional and corporate client base in Hong ...

Channel Capital appoints distribution director from Janus Henderson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... director for retail, intermediaries and family office. Mandekic joined from Aberdeen Asset Management, where he was a regional sales manager based in Melbourne. Prior to that, he was a model portfolio manager at AMP and an investment and product analyst ...

Capital Group appoints Aussie fixed income lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... James Blair has been appointed head of fixed income investment services Asia Pacific, joining from UBS where he led the regional fixed income specialist team and Australian fixed income strategy. Based in Singapore, Blair will be responsible for managing ...

AI threatens financial services workers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... algorithms capable of learning and constantly improving specific processes to automate and solve business challenges, Infosys regional head for Australia and New Zealand Andrew Groth said. AI deployment to-date is predominantly in the areas of machine ...

MetLife awards $11bn custody mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... providing best in class services and solutions to meet MetLife's needs today and as they grow," HSBC Securities Service regional head of insurance sector sales Cara Brosnan said. "Insurance is an important sector for our Securities Services business ...

Insurtech associations form global alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... founding members for Global InsurTech Alliance. Asia has seen a spike of insurtech activity in the past two years with major regional innovation hubs taking shape in both China and Singapore. "We recognise that the true power of insurtech is in collaboration ...

KPMG names insurance and wealth lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... across Asia Pacific in strategic leadership, corporate development and operational management roles. He was most recently regional vice president of Prudential Financial based in Singapore, running the Asia-Pacific strategy and corporate development ...

Soaring education costs require financial plan: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... education where parents can spend $52,369 per child, and $8089 more costly than Western Australia, the most affordable for regional government education. Hawkins added the research debunks the myth government education is so-called "free" and encouraged ...

Principal and CIMB strengthen asset management ties

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Dato' Sri Zafrul Aziz said: "As a leading ASEAN universal bank, asset management continues to be an integral part of our regional banking business. This shareholding realignment will ensure that our asset management joint venture with Principal achieves ...