Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 31 - 40 of 1924 results for "AUD"

ASIC cracks down on Prospero for reporting failures

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
The corporate regulator recently suspended the AFSL of Melbourne-based over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives issuer Prospero Markets (Prospero). The penalty comes after the Forex and CFD trading platform, which services mainly Chinese-speaking clients ...

Court finds Canna Campbell infringed trademark

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
Financial adviser and finfluencer Canna Campbell was found guilty of infringing the trademark "Financial Foreplay" in her podcasts. The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia determined that the founder of SugarMamma TV and SASS Financial used ...

Frontier Advisors to choreograph The Australian Ballet endowment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2023
Frontier Advisors is set to engineer the investment strategy for The Australian Ballet endowment. The asset consultant will lend its expertise in strategic asset allocation, manager research and selection, while also delivering performance reporting ...

FEAL board welcomes Ian Patrick

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023
Australian Retirement Trust chief investment officer Ian Patrick will replace Paul Watson on the board following the latter's resignation from Hostplus as group executive of member experience. Welcoming Patrick to the board, The Fund Executives ...

Angela Jackson to helm annual Chief Economists Forum

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
Impact Economics and Policy lead economist Angela Jackson is set to lead discussions at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum 2024, joined by industry stalwart Don Stammer. Bringing together more than 700 of the industry's leading financial ...

Caddick SMSF clients should recoup all funds: Lawyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
While there are good indications that Melissa Caddick's victims will recoup most of their funds, the lawyer spearheading the latest class action believes that SMSF clients should get all their money back. Michael Chapman, a director at Melbourne-based ...

FSCP serves up registration prohibition order

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
The Financial Services and Credit Panel (FSCP) has slapped a financial adviser with a "registration prohibition order" for being insolvent under administration. Timothy Leslie Anderson's registration as a relevant provider has been revoked from ...

'Significant deficiencies' lead APRA to act against NGS Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
Almost nine months on from a cyber breach that saw member data taken, the $14 billion super fund will have to contend with additional licence conditions as it looks to remedy "significant deficiencies" in its cyber controls. As first reported by Financial ...

Adviser with Investport links sees ban affirmed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023
A financial adviser who failed to act in her clients' best interests by recommending they invest in the Investport scheme she was receiving loans from has seen her two-year ban affirmed by an appeals tribunal. Pamela Anderson was a financial adviser ...

Interest rates on hold as RBA pauses

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... policy optionality, but conditionalities around the statement err the remarks towards a dovish outcome that auger well for AUD rates but less so for the Australia dollar," Evans said. "It also contrasts with the general tone from the RBNZ last week and ...