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AMP fined $24m for charging deceased customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... obviously unable to monitor their accounts and were entirely reliant on the representatives of their estates." ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said: "The AMP companies had been notified that these customers had died, and despite this, continued to charge ...

Insignia bolsters executive leadership team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... outcomes, ensuring alignment to Insignia's governance functions. She reports directly to the Insignia superannuation trustees chair. Coyne brings more than 25 years' industry experience to the role. She has spent the last 15 years at MLC and Insignia ...

PensionDanmark selects future chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... experience from the management of significant public institutions across economy, finance, labour market and welfare," the fund's chair Lars Sandahl Sørensen said. "Peter Stensgaard Mørch is a capacity on both a professional, leadership and human level. ...

Abolishing FDSs a major win: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... inefficient. So, there's a strong reason for why we should be wanting to get rid of FDSs," he said. Quality of Advice Review chair Michelle Levy recommended the elimination of FDSs in her February report. Instead, she wrote, advisers should provide ...

Liverpool Partners invests in AI

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... Holdings group chief operating officer and Accenture Digital managing director James Scott will join Simplyai as its new chair. Already, he serves as chair of Liverpool's technology portfolio company Siesma. "I am pleased to be appointed chair to ...

Packer donates $7m to mental health research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
The gift will accelerate mental health research and establish the James Packer Chair in Mood Disorders at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). The gift, jointly funded by Packer and The Packer Family Foundation, will see the professorial chair ...

Ex-Vocus chair indicted for insider trading

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
Former Vocus chair Vaughan Bowen has been indicted on two counts of insider trading relating to the EQT Infrastructure IV Fund's proposal to acquire Vocus. ASIC alleged that Bowen traded over five million Vocus shares in June 2019 while in possession ...

Cbus, EISS Super finalise merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
... 2021. This followed EISS Super being told by APRA that it must merge, as well as a failed merger attempt with TWUSUPER. Cbus chair Wayne Swan said preparation for the merger was involved, including the need to develop defined benefit products for EISS ...

HCF Life under ASIC surveillance

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... insurance, and a reasonable person "in the circumstances could not be expected to have been aware of the condition." ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court added insurers need to ensure that all terms in their contracts, including important pre-existing condition ...

ASIC, APRA reviewer deprioritised by government

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023
Only two years on from its creation, the government is cutting the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority's funding, in a move that will see it only review the activities of ASIC and APRA every five years. The Authority, which commenced 1 July 2021 ...