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Voting opens for 2017 Power50

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
Voting is now open for the 2017 Power50 list of Australia's most influential financial advisers. Last month Financial Standard received more than 600 nominations (including multiple nominations) on who should be recognised in the 50 Most Influential ...

Why advisers should revisit death benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
Three months after the super changes took effect, it's time for advisers to revisit the rules regarding death and disability benefits in conjunction with the transfer balance cap in estate planning strategies. According to IOOF head of technical services ...

Former TCorp executives join FIIG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
A former long-standing chief executive and a past chief financial officer of TCorp have joined the board of FIIG Securities. The fixed income expert has appointed two new non-executive directors in Stephen Knight and Christine Feldmanis. Knight, who ...

Labor rejects ASIC chair nominee

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen slammed the Turnbull Government's decision to proceed with its nomination for ASIC's next chair. Bowen said Labor "makes it very clear" it will not support the appointment of Credit Suisse chair and former CBA general counsel ...

Technical Services Forum tackles super challenges

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... ceased work in 2015, met retirement conditions of release and died in September 2017. Chu asked whether the reversionary nomination was still valid, whether it was still binding on the trustee to pay death benefits to Susan and also questioned whether ...

Cuffe to join Class board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
Financial services veteran Chris Cuffe is likely to add another directorship to his hat, standing for nomination to the Class board. Class chairman Matthew Quinn said the board was delighted to nominate a director for election with "such a strong background ...

CBA class action moves forward

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
IMF Bentham today announced it will formally fund an open class action against the Commonwealth Bank relating to alleged breaches of anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws. The class action will consist of shareholders who purchased ...

Nominations open for 2017 Power50

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
Financial Standard's coveted Power50 series is returning in 2017 with the launch of The 50 Most Influential Financial Advisers in Australia. Nominations are now open for the 2017 list. Once nominations are completed, Financial Standard readers will ...

Former politician to chair Equity Trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... Kennett has served as a director of EQT for nine years and also as a member of its remuneration, human resources and nomination committee. In announcing EQT's intention to appoint Kennett, Killen said: "Jeff is a highly accomplished business and community ...

MyPlanner inks deal with tech provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
Independent financial advice licensee MyPlanner has become the first dealer group to partner with PractiFI. As part of the dealer group's business-wide technology transformation strategy, MyPlanner and its adviser network will now use PractiFI's solution ...