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Former NULIS chair faces Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
The former chair of NAB's superannuation entities has denied MLC tried to bill other services in order to claim advice fees. Nicole Smith was the NULIS Nominees chair from 2013 to 2018, and she faced the Royal Commission this afternoon as it resumed ...

IOOF continues organic growth trajectory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
IOOF is celebrating record financial results, driven largely by its financial advice and platforms businesses and the execution of multiple acquisitions as recent as June. IOOF reported a record underlying profit after tax of $191.4 million for FY18 ...

Farmers should urgently access super: Advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Financial planners can help embattled farmers in drought stricken areas to urgently access their superannuation by lobbying the Federal Government for changes to super hardship policy. Certified Financial Planners Julie Matheson and Peter Roan are proposing ...

ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... against them, as well as issuers involved in controversial weapons. Cameron Hume was founded in 2011 and signed on to the UN PRI in 2015.The new fund is offered through a Dublin domiciled in a UCITS vehicle. Cameron Hume is marketing the new fund to ...

NULIS names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
NULIS Nominees has appointed a new chair, replacing Nicole Smith, who is due to appear before the financial services Royal Commission this week. According to the latest NULIS Nominees Executive Officer Disclosure, Peter Promnitz was appointed as chair ...

Equity Trustees responds to GAM suspension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Equity Trustees halted applications into and redemptions from two GAM Investments funds following the suspension of the global manager's fixed income investment director. In a letter to unitholders, Equity Trustees - as responsible entity for the ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
MetLife Australia made several senior appointments to its relationship management and underwriting teams. Rachel Towell and Stuart White are the latest to join the life insurer as state managers for New South Wales and ACT, and Queensland respectively. ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
If all goes according to expectations, today's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Board meeting will mark one-month and two years (25 months) that the country's cash rate had been stuck at a record low 1.50%, and the longest stretch of unchanged ...

Lose grandfathered commissions, lose business: MLC

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The financial services Royal Commission questioned if MLC's decision to stick with grandfathered arrangements was in the best interest of members following a large consolidation of superannuation funds that provided an opportunity to remove them. ...

Boutique equities manager raising $4 million

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
A former Commsec distribution head is seeking to raise $4 million for an asset management company that will run a thematic fund. Seer Asset Management was founded by stockbroker Peter LeMessurier, former Commsec executive Steve James, and Alice LeMessurier. ...