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Acting AMP Australia chief joins FSC board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... chief executive in February 2019. He has also held positions with AMP New Zealand as general manager marketing and customer sales, director of advice and sales and director of retail financial services. In August 2020, Blair was appointed acting chief ...

BT cuts Wealth Connect

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... Advice'. A team of around 30 provided general advice to BTFG customers across life insurance retention, new superannuation sales, consolidation and super retention. The business was rebranded to 'Scaled Advice' in 2013, with intra fund advice ...

Fiscal policy spurs investor confidence: Citi

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... 69% of investors believe New Zealand will have negative rates in the first half of 2021. Citi Australia's head of investor sales Mark Woodruff said: "It is clear that investor confidence is underpinned by the continued supply of fiscal stimulus and the ...

Stephen Jones admits to anti-life insurance bias

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... with a bias against it, I have to say. I think the burden lies upon the industry at large to prove that a commission based sales model attached to an advice sector can provide advice that is not conflicted," Jones said. "I want to be very frank. I don't ...

ASI names global head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... BlackRock executive to the newly created position of global head. Alex Hoctor-Duncan has been with ASI for two years as global sales director, prior to which he was at BlackRock for over 21 years, most recently as head of retail. "In my two years at ...

Fund manager hires client experience lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
A $2.6 trillion ($1.9tn) global fund manager has hired a sales and marketing expert to a newly created role. Capital Group named James Cardew as its new head of marketing and client experience for Asia and Europe, responsible for overseeing institutional ...

New deputy Aussie equities head at Aberdeen Standard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... after 12 years on the team. She joined Aberdeen in 2008 from Citigroup where she was vice president institutional research sales in Australia and New York. The Aussie equities team at Aberdeen Standard managed about $1 billion in total assets as at mid-May ...

Manipulative trading at J.P. Morgan costs it over $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
J.P. Morgan will be forced to cough up more than $1.3 billion (US$920 million) after entering into an agreement with the US Department of Justice, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The agreements ...

ETFs undermine product comparison: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... added. "Just as you cannot judge a book its cover, you cannot judge an ETF by its name," said ETF Securities co-head of sales Kanish Chugh. Chugh said the ETP industry is doing a good job of providing financial literacy to new investors, who might be ...

Former Ellerston executive in new role

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Ellerston Capital's former head of institutional sales and client relations has nabbed a new role as head of marketing at a global investment manager. Melinda Carter has joined L1 Capital as its new head of marketing, having left Ellerston in April ...