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Advice, but not as you know it

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... need to have answers quicker." Karagianis said a key role in the current environment is often as much about providing counsel on the importance of maintaining a perspective on the longer-term outlook as it is about negotiating short-term volatility. ...

ASX appoints compliance chief

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... chief compliance officer, as the incumbent prepares to step down after a decade in the role. The ASX's deputy general counsel Janine Ryan will take over from Kevin Lewis as he shifts into an advisory role ahead of his retirement in mid-2022. ASX Corporate ...

COVID-19 drives Aussies to check exemptions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
In one of the most tragic of COVID-19 consequences, the pandemic is driving Australians to ask their life insurers whether their policies cover them for suicide, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economic has heard. Appearing before ...

Former ASIC lawyer joins private firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... of a well-known Australian law firm. Herbert Smith Freehills announced Lesley Symons had been appointed as an executive counsel in its financial services regulatory practice. Symons will be based in the firm's Brisbane office, to be one of the leaders ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic could lead emerging markets to lose the last decade in progress, as the world sinks deeper into a global recession far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to State Street Global Advisors head of global ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted Australia's GDP will be -6.7% this year due to the effects of COVID-19. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the pandemic has resulted in a collapse ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has called on every government around the world to introduce substantial targeted policies to support the economy through the coronavirus epidemic. In a blog post, Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the ...

Westpac director heads for the exit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... tenure and wish him well for the future. I know that I speak for many at Westpac when I say that Lindsay's guidance and counsel will be greatly missed."

IOOF restructures leadership team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... role in June last year, which was said to be finalised when the firm appointed a new chief financial officer and general counsel in December. However, the firm's latest string of senior leadership changes appear to be in response to its acquisition of ...

IOOF faces new class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... George Vernados, chief financial officer David Coulter, general manager of legal, risk and compliance Paul Vine and general counsel Gary Riordan. APRA's legal proceedings, however, were unsuccessful with the Federal Court finding that IOOF did not contravene ...