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Chief executive banned for paying wife

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... employee of the mutual except her husband. Forsyth falsified meeting minutes to make it appear as though the remuneration committee had agreed to his wife's payment increases. But in fact, it had only agreed to his salary. The FCA explained what followed ...

Governance experts join boutique

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... appointment - Shane McGarry will step into the role of director, investment advisory. He will join the firm's investment committee in conjunction with the firm's asset consultants. "Shane's career success has been built on his deep understanding ...

FS Roundtable: Striking the perfect balance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... alternatives is a broad area. The European firm, which services wholesale clients locally and has a global investment committee based in Switzerland and Australia, has a 20% allocation to alternatives that complements a core satellite approach. The core ...

Westpac chief believes in financial advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... have access to good, cost-effective, unconflicted financial advice. Speaking to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics Hartzer also said he regrets having to exit the financial advice business. "We concluded that it was uneconomic ...

Chief economist update: Brexit la la la

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... around August this year. The Bank of England's (BOE) monetary policy statement published after the monetary policy committee meeting of October 7 - where it kept policy settings unchanged - was more optimistic on Brexit. "In October, the UK and EU ...

Super fund adds industry veteran

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... stepped down from the APSS board after close to nine years. Marshall also served as chair of the fund's investment committee during that time. Replacing him, Wilton was appointed as an employer-representative director. Wilton held the role of managing ...

Boutique hires CBA's credit strategy lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... credit research, and portfolio manager for the ING high yield fund. He also chaired ING's Asia-Pacific regional credit committee and was a member of ING's global credit leadership team. Prior to ING, he worked as a corporate credit analyst at ANZ and ...

FASEA chief unaware of dwindling adviser numbers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... education requirements has had on financial adviser numbers during a recent Senate Estimates hearing. Appearing before the committee, Glenfield was asked by Liberal Senator Amanda Stoker whether the authority acknowledged the risk of losing experience ...

AustralianSuper adds former PwC partner to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... previously held governance roles at CareSuper and SAS Trustees Corporation (NSW) as director and chair of the audit committee. She was also the deputy chair of Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VIMA) where she also chaired the audit committee. Her ...

IOOF to cut bonuses, pays Kelaher millions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... remuneration framework, reflecting both regulatory and market expectations for 2021," Harvey wrote. "The group remuneration committee is currently considering removing short term incentives for key management personnel. Long term incentives are also ...