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Brighter Super adds head of product

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
... specialist at Orbis Investments and Allan Gray Australia. In that role, she was tasked with building and launching new products to market and creating a premium client and adviser servicing model. Other previous positions include head of wealth management ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders against Keystone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... Growth, High Growth, and Conservative. The regulator said it made the orders "to protect retail investors from acquiring products under PDSs that may be defective and not worded and presented in a clear, concise, and effective manner." ASIC said it is ...

Class action filed against IC Markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... to retail investors, leading investors to suffer losses or damages by acquiring highly risky and unsuitable financial products. The action is being funded by Woodsford, which is also backing a similar class action against IG Markets. "ASIC has looked ...

Vale Jason Milosevski

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
... development manager where, in addition to maintaining adviser relationships and raising awareness for the insurer's products, he helped mentor new business development team members. He was PPS Mutual's first business development manager in Victoria ...

iExtend finds interim arrangement to operate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
... licensee. These services may include financial advice, investment management, insurance broking or dealing in financial products. Last November, the firm accepted a court enforceable undertaking from ASIC after the regulator found that the life insurance ...

BlackRock iShares adds to factor ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
... add momentum, quality, and value ETFs to its range of iShares Factor ETFs. They will also be the first of the manager's products to be listed on Cboe Australia. BlackRock iShares is introducing three new ETFs later this month, while also making changes ...

ASIC to tighten grip on super fund misdemeanours

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... by trustees to protect members' superannuation balances, Court said Members should be able to have confidence that the products in which they are investing are designed to maximise retirement outcomes and sufficiently balance risk. However, some recent ...

Unlisted asset valuation practices under review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
... yesterday show total super assets hit $3.57 trillion last financial year, close to $1 trillion of which is in MySuper products. Total contributions into MySuper products in the year to 30 June 2023 were $134 billion, while $76 billion was paid out in ...

Westpac loses Ausgrid rate swap case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
... further alleged that Westpac traders used this inside information in acquiring and disposing of interest rate derivative products at market open to pre-position the bank to execute the transaction. On the day the saw was executed, Westpac's trading desk ...

Equity Trustees adds more super fund clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
... funds have engaged us as their independent trustee and trusted partner supporting them by overseeing the management of products and funds for nearly 800,000 members with around $59.8bn of funds under supervision," Equity Trustees general manager client ...