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COBA appoints former ASIC executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... the code meets consumer expectations. "His insights will be invaluable for the customer owned sector as the regulatory and legal environment continues to evolve in the wake of the financial services Royal Commission," COBA chief executive Michael Lawrence ...

Australian Ethical divests IOOF

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... the Australian Ethical Charter," he said. This was after "carefully" reviewing information presented as part of APRA's legal proceedings against IOOF, the response provided by IOOF and evidence from the banking Royal Commission. Findings from the ...

Legalsuper expands member services arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Legalsuper created two new senior managerial roles to help service its 44,000 member base. Noel Hucker was appointed manager of member service for the northern region to manage teams in Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales and the Australian ...

MLC expands customer experience efforts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... understand our customers' insurance needs and bring innovative new products to market." Previously, Portelli spent time at Legal & General as the firm's business transformation director. In a statement she said she was excited to join the life insurer. ...

ANZ, IOOF revise wealth sale agreement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... against IOOF. Providing a further update on the sale, ANZ said it has agreed an amendment with IOOF that will allow for the legal separation of the pensions and investments business. It will also allow the business' independent trustee, OnePath Custodians ...

Early financial advice prevents worries at the end

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... to care for their families after they pass away and pay for the end-of-life care they endured. Australian Unity Trustees Legal Services national manager of estate planning Anna Hacker concurred, and said despite advertising around estate planning mostly ...

Joint venture to set new ETF standard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... line-up of index ETFs and index mutual funds," RBC GAM president Doug Coulter said. While the two firms remain separate legal entities, they will employ a unified distribution model and work together to further strengthen and refine the product suite. ...

KPMG hires legal services partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
KPMG's Australian legal advisory business has hired a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to work with financial services companies. Zein El Hassan is the 19th partner on the KPMG Law Australia team. He will report to the team's head Stuart Fuller. El ...

ASIC and Westpac court battle sees mixed outcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 JAN 2019
... be a bad policy outcome for Australians." BTFG chief executive Brad Cooper also said at the time : "We reject ASIC's legal interpretation that some customers may have thought they were receiving personal, rather than general advice. In each of the ...

IOOF appoints independent reviewer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... APRA to separate its Registrable Superannuation Entity (RSE) and Responsible Entity (RE) licence functions into distinct legal entities by 31 December 2019. The wealth manager will also appoint an independent expert to analyse the possible consolidation ...