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Integrity Life updates product offering

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... for You policyholders can access a professional services benefit of up to $3000 reimbursed for an adviser, accountant or lawyer to prepare a plan. If the policy is for a business and the policyholder is the owner, partner, or shareholder they can increase ...

AustralianSuper breached member's privacy: Regulator

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
The $180 billion superannuation fund has been ordered to audit certain procedures, after a member's complaint to a federal regulator found the fund interfered with their privacy. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on December ...

Class action launched against OnePath

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JAN 2021
... ANZ Bank, for mediocre returns, rather than seeking the best possible interest rate for cash. Slater and Gordon principal lawyer Kirsten Morrison said: "Over several years, the trustee invested members' cash with parent company ANZ Bank. They did not ...

Woman allegedly left out of will because she was born by artificial insemination

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
One of Australia's richest families is locked in a legal dispute over their father's will, which left out a child conceived by artificial insemination. The case raises the question - are children born by sperm donors or artificial insemination ...

QMV hires technology lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... Mallesons in Melbourne and British Telecom in the United Kingdom. For the first 10 years of his career, Clamp was a qualified lawyer, having worked seven years at Linklaters in London, advising companies across industries on corporate finance and other ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
The Federal Court case brought by Mark McVeigh against the $57 billion industry super fund has been dismissed. The case was scheduled to be heard today but Justice Perram ordered that by consent the case was to be dismissed. McVeigh and Rest have been ...

CFS Investments chair to retire

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... chair, sitting on the board for over 15 years, starting as a non-executive director in February 2004. Ward was a commercial lawyer for 28 years and was NAB's general counsel for Australia between December 2005 and February 2011. She was a previous ...

Sydney multi-boutique hires from Perpetual

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... Australia for five years, and was a finalist for the Corporate Counsel Awards 2020 in the category of 'Financial Services Lawyer of the Year'. "Greg brings a great deal of expertise to our organisation and his experience within funds management ...

Stephen Jones admits to anti-life insurance bias

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... model based on commission-based sales... is gone, it's not coming back," he said. Jones drew on his experience as a lawyer when discussing pricing models that could replace the commission model. He said that if financial advisers could successfully ...

Mayfair 101 promises investors pie in the sky

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
Mayfair 101 will submit a proposal to the Federal Court later this month promising investors the return of their capital. The company said it will present its proposal to the court on October 22, with the objective of giving noteholders a "clear pathway" ...