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 CHIEF EXECUTIVE, FUNDS MANAGEMENT CHALLENGER LIMITED As Challenger's chief executive of funds management, Nick Hamilton is responsible for the $91 billion business that generates about 25% of the company's net profits - but it hasn't always been smooth sailing. Kanika Sood writes. |
Ridiculous! Culpable or not, these people - and their former 400 advisers - were not, and are not, criminals. In typical gung-ho ASIC mentality, technical breaches are treated as sins against humanity.
As a retired financial adviser with 50+years in practice, I would stake my pension on the fact that more good was delivered to the Clients of the 400 advisers than was anything resembling dis-service. But ASIC couldn't care less about the thousands of Clients who were deprived of their Adviser immediately approaching Financial Year-end at the time they stopped Dover trading. Not even a consideration.
Financial Planning is about caring for the security and well-being of everyday Australians. The question as to whether the Advisers were doing so in utmost good faith was clearly never a consideration of ASIC. And sadly, and tragically, still isn't.