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Colonial First State names executive chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... and business transformation and growth, Colonial First State said. He served as chair of MLC Wealth from June 2020 to February this year, and was executive chair of Generation Development Group from 2017 to 2020 at which point he stepped away from the ...

Frontier hires from Cbus

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... diversity of backgrounds and knowledge and I'm keen to add my own dimension to that," he said of the appointment. In February, Frontier announced eight additions to its team including Jill Guan, as a senior consultant specialising in debt and currency ...

Ardea launches fund to European investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... uncorrelated returns." Since its 2012 inception the fund achieved a return of 4.31% and a one-year return of 4.06% to February 28.

Rest expands member engagement team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... member insights respectively. Catherine Farrugia and Steven Ahn have joined the member engagement team. Farrugia joined in February as the new general manager of digital, responsible for digital strategy, design and delivery, which covers the super fund's ...

T. Rowe Price hires ETF consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... a consultant on ETFs, indicating the global giant may be testing the waters for fast-growing ETF industry which ended February with over $96 billion in total assets. T. Rowe Price has an ETF business in the United States, which last year expanded to ...

Pandemic boosts scam complaints

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... COVID-19 but the pandemic has accelerated this trend," Untersteiner said. The data showed that between 3 March 2020 and 28 February 2021 there were 11,482 COVID-related complaints about financial products or services which equated to one in seven of ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... Australian business confidence remain on the up and up. The NAB business confidence index rose to an 11-month high of +16 in February, "with all states and industries reporting gains, except for retail" (NAB survey). In addition, the latest survey showed ...

Citi moves to double wealth business revenues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... aims to deliver a unique experience to clients. The announcement follows the closure of Citi's last physical branch in February 2020, as the global bank focuses on digital engagement for most banking interactions. Citi head of banking and wealth Gofram ...

Quasi-mergers in APRA's sights

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... over "quasi-mergers" raised by Senator Andrew Bragg. In a letter provided to Financial Standard, Bragg contacted APRA in February to express concerns over the "quasi-merger" between Maritime Super and Hostplus where the former will "effectively become ...

AMP Capital Ethical Leaders dropped by another super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... management, as of December the fund reported $435 million in FUM. Mercy Super pulled its mandate from the fund on 15 February 2021, rolling member assets over to its MySuper Balanced option as an interim measure while the trustee searches for an appropriate ...