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Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
The financial services industry has made modest inroads with gender parity, and closing the wealth and financial literacy gap, but the reality is accelerated action is needed from the government and private sector to tackle entrenched inequalities as ...

ASIC bans adviser jailed for supplying drugs

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... expires in January 2026. However, the ban indicates that Shortland will not be able to engage in any form of financial services for a further six years should he be released early by parole. As a result, he will be suspended from providing any financial ...

Perpetual appoints demerger specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Perpetual Limited has recruited a chief transformation officer as the financial services giant continues to pursue the sale of its wealth management business. Song Hong joined Perpetual five months ago as a separation specialist when Perpetual was about ...

Sandi Orleow joins ECP board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... Angela Obree as the second non-executive director of the company. Orleow has over three decades of experience in financial services, asset management, superannuation, member associations and business transformation, both locally and globally. Manny Pohl ...

Axius names executive director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... company's mission and driving our continued growth." Filippelis brings over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry holding a clutch of senior roles spanning investment management, research, distribution, relationship management ...

Mercer snaps up Northern Trust AM exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... spent four years at Mercer in Australia as the head of institutional sales and strategy. Morgan has been in financial services for over 15 years, having held various leadership roles in consulting, strategy, and distribution. She is heading back as Mercer's ...

Large financial firms falling behind on AI adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... white-collar workers are using AI day to day. They probably are just not telling their boss, and that includes within financial services," he said. "I suspect that is an enormous, unofficial, amount of usage. The from the official side, there has been ...

Former AMP licensees rebranded as Akumin

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... across our network." It will sit alongside Entireti's other businesses, Fortnum Private Wealth and Personal Financial Services. It follows the appointment of an external creative agency and consultation with The Advisers Association, the group's ...

Financial services chips away at gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
The financial services sector made a fractional improvement on its gender pay disparity, reporting a 22.2% gap on a median and average basis, the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) report shows. The 2024 financial year shows that financial ...

Treasury responds to CHESS replacement inquiry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
Treasury has released its response following the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services report, Competition in clearing and settlement and the ASX CHESS Replacement Project: The CHESS Replacement Project is too important ...