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WHSP appoints new chief financial officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... biggest shareholder at 39.2%. WHSP's other financial services portfolio companies are BKI Investment Company, Milton Corporation, URB Investments, Contact Asset Management, Ironbark Asset Management and Pitt Capital Partners. Millner said WHSP's investment ...

AMP admits to serious misconduct in RC submissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
AMP has acknowledged hundreds of instances of misconduct in relation to the provision of financial advice between 1 January 2008 and 30 June 2015. In opening the Royal Commission's inquiry into financial advice today, Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena ...

Royal Commission must cast net wider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
The next fortnight will see the Royal Commission grill some of Australia's biggest providers of financial advice, albeit with some noticeable absences. During the Commission's second round of hearings the big four banks and AMP will appear, as will ...

IFM partners to slash carbon emissions in $12bn fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... partnering to cut carbon emissions for Australia's largest infrastructure fund. Partnering with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), IFM will work to reduce emissions for the assets contained in its $12 billion Australian Infrastructure Fund ...

AIST president and board director switch seats

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... directorships at several industry funds in the last 14 years. She is currently a trustee-elected director of SAS Trustee Corporation. She also holds directorships at Professionals Australia and Powercoal Employees' Entitlements Corporation. In the past ...

Royal Commission to take "labyrinthine" advice legislation to task

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
In its background paper leading up to the financial advice inquiry on April 16, the Royal Commission has called out the "labyrinthine" regulatory regime in which the industry operates. The paper notes the current legislative framework for financial ...

MQA chief executive departs in management restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... February this year; he is also a senior managing director at Macquarie and a director at Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation. He was previously New South Wales managing director at Fairfax and a consultant at Bain & Co. MQA said in an ASX statement ...

FASEA standards still lacking: FPA

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education standards do not give sufficient recognition to existing advisers who have completed study, according to FPA chair Neil Kendall. The FPA has issued an online questionnaire to its 13,700 ...

Super fund redesigns insurance offering

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
An $8 billion superannuation fund has opened a tender for its new life insurance offering, one which aims to comply with the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice well ahead of the 2021 deadline. Tasplan chief operations officer Nick ...

Blue Sky hits back at hedge fund, requests ASIC intervention

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments resumed trading on the ASX and has requested ASIC investigate the accusations made by a US hedge fund - and associated short-selling - last week. Glaucus Research Group argued "Blue Sky is significantly overstating its ...