People Moves
Westpac Private Bank Names General Manager
Westpac Private Bank has appointed
Jane Watts as its new general manager.
Watts spent the last eight years at Macquarie Wealth Management,
where she was most recently the head. Prior to that, she held
executive roles at Lend Lease/MCL and Westpac. She takes over
from
Jan Swinhoe, who is leaving to pursue private interests, and
officially assumes her new position at the start of December.
Westpac Private Bank provides investment and banking
services for high net worth individuals, with operations in
Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Its wealth management services
are offered through its BT Financial Group subsidiary.
The appointment of Watts was announced just about the
same time the firm chose Standard & Poor's Fund Services to
provide research and investment consulting services to Westpac
Financial Planning and Magnitude Financial Planning, replacing
van Eyk. The deal involves the provision of research services to
over 1,600 advisors under the BTFG network.
