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Xplore continues hunt for chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... negotiations with highly qualified candidates for the role of chief executive and hopes to announce the appointment in August 2019." Xplore Wealth also lost its head of distribution and marketing, Tony Nejasmic, at the start of June. Nejasmic has since ...

Jane Hume to address AFA Conference

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... AustralianSuper. Financial Standard is the official media partner of the 2019 AFA National Conference, to be held in Adelaide from August 28-30.

ASIC reveals advice remediation progress

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... entities except Commonwealth Securities and Commonwealth Private reported their remediation programs would be complete by August 31. ASIC added CBA's $9,269,005 in report 515 remediation did not include amounts paid by CBA under other large-scale ...

FASEA exam results expected soon

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... Standards and Ethics Authority revealed it will release the results of June's inaugural FASEA exam by midway through August, after a "comprehensive marking approach and analysis." The organisation has also extended the registration period for exams ...

Industry super fund discounts investment fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
A $2.6 billion superannuation fund will lower its investment fees for some options as of August 1. Profit-for-member fund AvSuper is reducing fees for all investment choice members. AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade said while the reductions vary ...

Ban unsolicited life insurance sales: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... 16,000 customers who were pressured to buy life insurance over the phone. Commonwealth Bank refunded over $10 million in August 2017 for misselling CCI. ASIC said the ban forms part of its broader priority to address harms in insurance. Once the ban ...

CFSGAM sale clears regulatory hurdles

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... banking giant. The $4.2 billion sale to Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) is expected completion is in August, CBA said in company filings yesterday. "The final sales proceeds are currently expected to be $4.2 billion, subject to completion ...

Buy time ahead for Aussie equities: Tribeca

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... the highest since the GFC in 2007. "We do believe there will be short-term volatility, particularly as we head into the August reporting season. We do see potential downside to the equity index which should act as a buying opportunity," Liu, who manages ...

Standard Life Assurance fined for hawking non-advised annuities

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... £25.3 million ($45.1m) to 15,302 customers as at 31 May 2019. SLA is a former subsidiary of Standard Life Aberdeen. On 31 August 2018, it was sold to the Phoenix Group. The past business review, which is ongoing under the ownership of the Phoenix Group ...

Open Banking gets another shot in parliament

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will issue the 'lock-down' version of the Rules governing the system by the end of August; and the interim Data Standards Body has, in the last week, issued the implementation draft of the technical standards." ...