Westpac Private Bank

We are delighted to launch our inaugural Prestige Property Report, your single destination for Australian prestige property insights and intelligence. Prestige property represents the epitome of desirability and highest quality real estate. It offers a powerful wealth-building tool, but navigating it requires an understanding of market dynamics and unique factors driving value and transactions in this segment. In this report, you will find key insights and analysis of prestige property transactions, produced in partnership with Tim Lawless at CoreLogic Australia. Westpac’s Chief Economist Luci Ellis provides important context on the economic environment driving these trends. Watch the video below for an overview. To learn more contact your Private Banker or visit: https://lnkd.in/guXGqfU4    #property #insights #prestigepropertyreport 

Last week in London we were awarded three prominent awards at the Global Private Banking Innovation Awards: 🔸Best Private Bank – Australia 🔸Best Private Bank for Client Experience 🔸Highly Acclaimed: Best Private Bank – Digital Innovation It is the third year running that Westpac Private Bank has won Best Private Bank in Australia and are now recognised for our Digital Innovation and Client Experience efforts. This brings our global awards tally to 12 for 2024. Ashley Stewart, Managing Director of Westpac Private Bank said of the Global Private Banker awards: “It’s part of our DNA to seek feedback and listen closely to the needs of our high net worth clients. We remain focused on being in-step with client expectations, innovating and enhancing our service offering.   “We offer a flexible service model that enables clients to choose how they would like to be supported. Each high net worth family is provided with a dedicated private banking team and access to subject matter experts to support their often complex lending, investment and banking needs. Digital capability and experiences are an important component of our service offering, with clients increasingly seeking the flexibility and convenience of undertaking tasks digitally, to support their instantaneous 24/7 banking and wealth needs.” #privatebanking #clientexperience #innovation

“The next 10 years for us, is a golden era of healthcare innovation and evolution”. In our latest CIO Insights Series, Chief Investment Officer George Toubia outlines the long-term drivers that empower the multi-year investment opportunity in global healthcare. This includes an unprecedented pace of scientific innovation, government as an enabler of that innovation, evolving values-based healthcare models and pharmaceutical companies employing a strategic approach to managing patent cliffs. This sets the scene for our conviction in our Global Healthcare thematic. To learn more, contact your Private Banker or visit: https://lnkd.in/gzwkw_zK #investment #markets #healthcare

There has been an increasing demand from investors for research and trading tools, providing useful insights to support their trading activity. We are pleased to provide our clients with access to market leading research on our trusted award-winning mobile app. Westpac Wire recently spoke to Rohan Gorringe, Head of Online Share Trading, and Irene Guiamatsia, Head of Research at Investment Trends, to find out more about how Westpac Share Trading's comprehensive research offering helps investors delve into the dynamic world of trading. #onlinesharetrading #sharemarket #investing 

This week, we held our first Economic Update for the year with Westpac Group’s Chief Economist Luci Ellis, hosted by Elissa Crowther-Pal. Luci discussed the soft near-term outlook and how policy relief from the triple squeeze on Australian households is coming later this year. With the ripple effects on the domestic and global economy yet to fade, Luci also explored how geopolitical and structural drivers are shaping the medium-term economic outlook. George Toubia then provided an update on key thematic drivers impacting investment outcomes. Clients can access a playback of the live broadcast by contacting their Private Banker or Relationship Manager. #economy #interestrates #investment

We are thrilled to share that we have received recognition at the Euromoney Global Private Banking Awards for 2024 in the following categories: 🔸Australia’s Best Domestic Private Bank 🔸Australia’s Best for High-Net-Worth 🔸Australia’s Best for Digital Solutions 🔸Australia’s Best for Investment Research Judged by a carefully selected panel of global experts, these coveted awards celebrate excellence in Private Banking across 60 countries, as well as at a regional and global level. Our focus is on providing our valued HNW clients the highest level of Private Banking services. From a broad range of banking solutions to our award-winning Global Investment Services, that offers curated investment opportunities and unique investment insights to our discerning clients and their families. This acknowledgment across our offering is particularly meaningful. Thank you to our exceptional clients for choosing to partner with us for their banking and wealth needs. https://lnkd.in/gVQ7Ecik #privatebanking #investments #clientservice

Each year, our Chief Investment Officer George Toubia releases his Perspectives – our annual outlook with investment thematics and actionable insights for the year ahead. A core part of our proposition is identifying key themes and trends globally, sharing insights and providing a curated suite of investment opportunities through Global Investment Services. In this edition, George explores how global policy and geopolitical events have resulted in a tectonic shift in global market conditions. This has created investment opportunities for discerning investors from market forces of structural change. To learn more, contact your Private Banker or visit https://lnkd.in/gzwkw_zK #perspectives2024 #investment #markets

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate equality as well as the social, political and economic achievements of women. It is particularly special to Westpac Private Bank as we celebrate the many achievements of our clients. This year we are also celebrating our award for Best Global Private Bank for Women Clients by Global Finance Magazine. This acknowledges the strength of representation of our female clients and the advocacy of the service delivered to these clients and their families. Happy #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion

Today we commence our national Investment Symposium series for Global Investment Services (GIS) clients to launch our annual Perspectives publication. We will be connecting with our GIS clients, sharing actionable insights and extending our unique investments proposition that saw us recently awarded Best Global Private Bank for Self-Directed Investment by Global Private Banker. Global policy and geopolitical events have resulted in a tectonic shift in market conditions. This has created the opportunity to benefit from market forces of structural change. Our Chief Investment Officer George Toubia is joined by domestic and global investment experts to explore key themes for the year ahead, considering how countries, industries and companies are adapting and identifying drivers and beneficiaries in a world that is fundamentally changing. The video below shares the highlights of themes we will be exploring. We look forward to engaging with our clients around the country over the next two weeks. #perspectives2024 #investments #privatebanking

We are proud to share that we have won Best Private Bank for Digital Client Experience and Best Global Private Bank for Self-Directed Investment at the Global Private Banker Wealth Tech Awards. In an age of rapid digitisation, the personal touch remains essential. We are focused on delivering digital experiences that discerning high net worth clients and their families expect, supported by their Private Banking team. This acknowledgement demonstrates how our proposition strikes the balance of both uncovering investment opportunities that benefit from global structural trends and listening to what intrigues and drives our clients, delivered via our clients’ preferred engagement channels. These awards identify, honour and celebrate the world’s pre-eminent private banks, family offices and wealth managers that demonstrate elite levels of bespoke solutions, contribution to client service and strategic wealth preservation and growth capabilities. https://lnkd.in/gVQ7Ecik #privatebanking #investments #clientservice