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YBR appoints new general manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
A new general manager will join Yellow Brick Road in April. Glenn Gibson joins YBR having previously been head of sales and marketing at AMP. Before that, he was national sales manager, third-party distribution at AMP Bank, national sales manager at ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that the annual growth rate in Australian residential property prices continued to ease in the December 2017 quarter. The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property ...

ANZ considering IPO for subsidiary

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
ANZ is looking at an initial public offering for a New Zealand subsidiary, after an attempt to sell it to a Chinese buyer was blocked last year. The bank was set to sell UDC Finance to Chinese behemoth HNA Group for NZ$660 million when the NZ regulator ...

IOOF replaces group head of research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
The former chief executive of Lonsec Research will join IOOF as head of research and retirement incomes in late April. Matt Olsen replaces former head of research and portfolio construction Matthew Drennan who tendered his resignation in December 2017. ...

Zurich hires risk strategy specialist, retains OnePath brand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
Zurich confirmed it will keep the OnePath brand following its acquisition of the life insurance business from ANZ, and it will operate alongside Zurich's own life insurance brand. The life insurer has also appointed a risk strategy specialist. Life ...

ANZ halts asset secured loans to retail customers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
ANZ will stop issuing new secured asset finance loans to retail customers, as the bank conducts an internal review of the business. New loans will cease from 30 April. "Given the increased technology costs required to effectively compete in the secured ...

Convicted SMSF auditor disqualified

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
ASIC has disqualified a Melbourne-based SMSF auditor who is serving a jail term for previous charges. Nayanaka Arjuna Samarakoon pleaded guilty to criminal offences that included dealing with property reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime ...

Climate change a real risk for investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Climate change is a growing concern for the majority of investors polled in Financial Standard's latest survey. Despite investors' worry, Australia's top companies are failing to improve climate risk disclosures. Seventy-one per cent of respondents ...

Long-standing Djerriwarrh executive retires

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
Djerriwarrh Investments Limited will soon see long-standing director Andrew Guy leave after about three decades in the job. Guy has served as a Djerriwarrh Investments director since December 1989. He has also held a spot on the company's investment ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces an uphill battle in its quest to normalise monetary policy if economic and financial market agents continue to "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November ...