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New shadow assistant treasurer's vision for advice, super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Luke Howarth has reaffirmed the opposition unreservedly supports Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR) recommendations and wouldn't go back to the drawing board, at an event hosted by the Financial Services ...

AMP product chief jumps to Perpetual

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
... product head also worked at Asteron Life as a product manager and at Nikko Asset Management in various roles including assistant analyst. Gambale will report to the head of the asset management business Amanda Gillespie. Last week, Perpetual confirmed ...

WAM calls to save in-person AGMs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones announced this month a review to consider making temporary changes to the Corporations Act to allow hybrid and virtual-only AGMs permanently, a move which Wilson Asset Management chief executive Geoff Wilson said is ...

Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... being cut off from the global financial system. At stake here is the ability of the Pacific to engage with the world." Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones told the forum, which was organised by the Australian and US government, that between 2011 and 2022 ...

First advice reform bill passes parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... their existing risk-based approach can continue, minimising additional documentation requests to advisers," she said. Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said the legislation clarifies that Australians can use their superannuation accounts to pay for personal ...

New inspector-general of taxation appointed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... Education. She is currently deputy secretary of the NSW Premier's Department, leading the Strategic Implementation Group. Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said Owen's extensive experience will "strengthen the important role the Office of the Inspector-General ...

Funds SA names interim investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
... he was involved in strategy and capital markets research and commercial transactions. Earlier, Kempton worked as an assistant valuer at CB Richard Ellis and as a project manager at Neometro. Friend, the former investment chief, joined Funds SA in December ...

More businesses fold, unpaid super recovery measure to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... FEG has been in operation since 5 December 2012, while the Recovery Program came into effect three years later. DEWR assistant first secretary Alex Mathews said that "the recovery program plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of FEG as ...

ASIC cancels Everest Asset Management's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... customers in Australia and throughout the world, with the volume of transfers masking the laundering of tainted funds, AFP assistant commissioner Stephen Dametto. The Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce has restrained property and other assets that ...

Advisers should leverage US tech blueprint: SIAA panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... on a panel discussing market innovation, Brooke Juniper, chief executive of start-up Sage, an AI-powered investment assistant for advisers, stressed that despite the rapid technological advancements, the likes of generative AI will not replace advisers ...