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Global manager hires IFM associate director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
The Melbourne office of a global equities manager has hired an IFM Investors associate director for its institutional business down under. Stuart Place is joining Orbis Investment Management after nearly eight years at IFM. He will take on the role ...

ASIC launches investigation into Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
More woe for Westpac as ASIC confirms it has commenced an investigation into the bank following AUSTRAC's actions in relation to money laundering. An ASIC spokesperson told Financial Standard : "ASIC can confirm that it commenced an investigation ...

Morningstar to cease in-house credit research

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... BondAdviser. Since then, Morningstar's director of equity and credit research Adam Fleck has led credit research, with associate analyst Shaun Ler. Ler will now shift his focus to equities research, where Morningstar has 13 analysts and three ass ...

Chief economist update: US consumer power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
The US-China trade deal/no trade deal seesaw continues to drive the markets' daily ups and downs. But behind these day-to-day swings is the rise and rise on Wall Street - to new record highs. To be sure, the third quarter reporting season was nothing ...

Tropical theme Ponzi scheme busted

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... allege is a brazen ongoing fraud that targeted many senior citizens and small business owners," said Carolyn Welshhans, associate director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement.

Aviva restructures, plans new retirement focus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
Aviva has announced a global restructure that will see the group split into five separate divisions, including the creation of a new retirement business. Announced yesterday, Aviva has reviewed its operations and is now simplifying its structure with ...

Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
Westpac is facing 23 million alleged breaches of anti-money laundering laws and counter terrorism laws. AUSTRAC has applied to the Federal Court seeking civil penalty orders against Westpac relating to "systematic" non-compliance with the Anti Money ...

CommInsure enters guilty plea

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
CommInsure has pleaded guilty to 87 hawking offences. ASIC announced that Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, trading as CommInsure, has entered a guilty plea for 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products in the course of unlawful, unsolicited ...

Registration deadline extended: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
ASIC has told Australian financial services licensees that they will not be in breach of the law because their financial advisers were not able to register with ASIC-approved compliances schemes. The original deadline for registering was 1 January 2020. ...

High claims acceptance among insurers: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
APRA and ASIC data has shown that 94% of life insurance claims from the major insurers were accepted over the year to June 2019, though with significance variance between cover types. The regulators have come together to publish data on life insurance ...