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Former ANZ adviser banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
ASIC has banned a Western Australia-based adviser from providing financial services for four years. The regulator said it had been surveilling Anthony Hilsley's activities when he was an authorised representative of RI Advice Group, owned at that time ...

Chief economist update: Lock us down Scotty!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... portfolio is bad? Just wait until all buyers disappear, consumed by a tiny speck of micro-organism. Remember Murphy's Law? "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Monetary and Keynesian stimulus measures, and governments nationalising banks and ...

US senators in alleged COVID-19 insider trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... Loeffler's input or direction, it said. Loeffler later told CNBC she was confident they had followed the letter and spirit of the law. Loeffler wasn't the only one to offload shares following the briefing. Senator Richard Burr - who chairs the Senate ...

AMP director retires

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... Association of Australiasia since mid-2013. He currently serves as a director at Scentre Group, and Harmos Horton Lusk (a corporate law firm). Previously, Harmos spent seven years as the chair of New Zealand's stock exchange. AMP chair David Murray said ...

Call for pause on default insurance changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
A prominent law firm is calling for upcoming changes to default insurance within superannuation to be postponed, as the COVID-19 pandemic increases the chance Australians will need to rely on the cover automatically provided by their super fund. Slater ...

ASIC drags CFS to court over MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
ASIC has commenced civil proceedings in the Federal Court against Colonial First State, alleging that it engaged in misleading communication with members. Following the introduction of legislation in 2012 that required trustees to offer members a default ...

Afterpay coughs up $1.5m over US loans

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... settlement, Afterpay will only make future loans or extensions of credit to California residents under a California Financing Law (CFL) license issued to its affiliate, Afterpay US Services, LLC." Despite this, Afterpay maintains it was not providing ...

Westpac hit with another class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... into and out of Australia through correspondent banking relationships. The bank is also facing class actions from US-based law firm Rosen Law on behalf of purchasers of Westpac shares between November 2015 and November 2019, as well as another Australia-based ...

National Stock Exchange names new chief executive

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... wealth of experience and education. "John holds academic qualifications in engineering (University of Western Australia), law, and enterprise (University of Melbourne), with a broad understanding of international regulatory regimes as they relate to ...

Life insurers are doing their best: FSC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... 11 subscribers to the code's compliance came about after the LCCC received more than 700 alleged breaches of the code from law firm Maurice Blackburn. "The report is silent on the positive changes made by the life insurance sector," the FSC said in a ...