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NAB hires former NSW premier

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
National Australia Bank appointed former New South Wales premier Mike Baird as its chief customer officer, corporate and institutional banking. Baird started his career in banking with NAB in 1989 and worked for Deutsche Bank and HSBC prior to entering ...

Confusion reigns in super and life insurance: CHOICE

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
Australians are missing out on thousands in retirement savings due to confusing superannuation products according to consumer advocacy group CHOICE. In their submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Life Insurance Industry in Sydney and Melbourne ...

Magellan COO departs for family office job

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
Magellan Financial Group's chief operating officer, one of the firm's first employees, left the firm in January. Nerida Campbell joined Magellan in 2006. She has also been Magellan's chief financial officer, company secretary and director. Before Magellan ...

Lifted by external demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
Though below market expectations, the Japanese economy managed to stay afloat, up 0.2% (1% annualised rate) in the fourth quarter of last year that followed a 0.3% (1.4% annualized) increase in the three months ended September. This marked the fourth ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
The times they are a-changin'. Three major central banks - the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BOE) - one day after another last week but did many give a hoot? Sure, it was hardly news because all three kept ...

Nikko Australia appoints COO

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
Nikko Asset Management has appointed former head of its global product promotions division in Singapore to chief operations officer for Australia. Peter Lynn's senior leadership role will give him specific accountability for operations, technology ...

ASIC targets NAB super after compliance breakdown

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
The trustee of Australia's largest retail super fund, the MLC Super Fund, will appoint an independent expert to review compliance breaches following an ASIC investigation. ASIC initially made enquiries into breach reports lodged by NAB wealth entities ...

ATO calls time on SMSF safe harbour rules

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
The ATO is warning financial advisers that the safe harbour rules for limited recourse borrowing arrangements in self-managed super funds will be changing this week. Under the new rules, LRBAs must be consistent with either the safe harbour guidelines ...

Former Fidelity chief joins boutique manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
Boutique fund manager Supervised Investments named its new chief executive this month, a former Fidelity Investments Australia chief executive and managing director. Joining in November 2016, Supervised Investments' new chief executive is Michael Ohlsson. ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
"Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out. We do not seek to adopt a model already enjoyed by other countries. We do not seek to hold on to bits of membership ...