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HESTA endorses super splitting initiative

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
HESTA is recommending super funds adopt a new process to make the splitting of assets easier following the results of a successful pilot program. HESTA is the first Australian super fund to adopt the Simpler Super Splitting initiative, which uses a ...

SMSF Association appoints chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
Brisbane Lawyer Scott Hay-Bartlem has been named chair of the SMSF Association. Hay-Bartlem, a partner at Brisbane law firm Cooper Grace Ward, has been a director for the organisation since July 2019, and will replace Andrew Hamilton who is stepping ...

Australian Unity Trustees adds lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
Australian Unity Trustees has appointed a national legal partnerships manager. Angela Ehsani steps into the role of national manager, legal partnerships. Based in Sydney, Ehsani will lead Australian Unity Trustees' national network of personal injury ...

E&P pulls the plug on DASS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
Amid a slew of class actions and regulatory problems, the troubled superannuation subsidiary of E&P Financial Group is now in voluntary administration. PwC has been called in as voluntary administrators of Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services ...

Federal Court fines Mayfair $30m

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 DEC 2021
James Mawhinney's Mayfair 101 Group has been ordered to pay a combined penalty of $30 million for misleading advertising. In handing down the decision, Justice Anderson said the increased penalties were appropriate, noting that those sought by ASIC ...

Backlash after 'unprecedented' ASIC action against Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
An industry group for independent financial advisers and lawyers have come out criticising Westpac over the six cases brought against it by ASIC. Slater and Gordon Lawyers is calling on Westpac to 'walk the talk', after Westpac's chief executive Peter ...

Plaintiff seeks to ring fence Dixon penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
... conduct. In response to the application, ASIC requested further time to consider its position. Piper Alderman class action lawyer and partner Martin del Gallego said: "The applicants are disappointed that the hearing of this important application did ...

QSuper faces class action over excess premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
A class action has been filed against QSuper, claiming it overcharged about 140,000 members for life insurance policies by charging almost all members the same despite differing occupations. Shine Lawyers has filed the action in the Federal Court against ...

Treasurer announces FIRB, RBA appointments

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... experience in the finance sector both in executive and non-executive roles and has previously worked as a banker and as a lawyer at Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Linklaters & Paines. She is currently a member of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, a ...

AMP Capital retains management of AWOF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
AMP Capital will continue to act as trustee and manager of the Wholesale Office Fund, its parent firm announced today. AMP said that the decision made by the trustee board of the AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund (AWOF) is in the best interest of unitholders ...