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Unlicensed financial adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
ASIC has permanently banned an unlicensed financial adviser found guilty of aiding and abetting a financial services firm that was also unlicensed. Following more than six years of work by the regulator, former Investment Intelligence Corporation director ...

Suncorp charged super members incorrect fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
The retail superannuation master trust charged incorrect fees to some of its members in the Suncorp Employee Super and Brighter Super funds and is working on remediating clients. Suncorp charged an incorrect investment fee to its members who joined ...

Macquarie boards add new CEO and Westpac veteran

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
Macquarie has added a former Westpac deputy chief executive to its boards, just as it announces the formal board appointments of incoming chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake that was flagged at its July annual general meeting. Philip Coffey is now ...

OneVue posts solid earnings, fund services stands out

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
OneVue posted $49 million in revenue in FY18, up 20% on the previous year, as its managed funds administration service delivered a standout year. The managed fund administration business alone delivered $2.2 million of the year's total revenue growth ...

Blue Sky offloads six funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Beleaguered Blue Sky Alternative Investments will sell its retirement living funds and its 50% stake in Aura Holdings, the operator of the retirement living business. Blue Sky today announced it signed a binding agreement with an offshore institutional ...

AMP names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
AMP has named its new chief executive, ending months of speculation. Francesco De Ferrari will take the helm from 1 December 2018. He was most recently chief executive, South East Asia and Frontier Markets at Credit Suisse, as well as head of private ...

CFS and a messy MySuper transition

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
Colonial First State's messy MySuper transition came under the Royal Commission's lens on Tuesday. Taking the witness box, Colonial First State executive general manager Linda Elkins told the Commission CFS initially failed to transition 13,000 members ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
The Serious and Financial Crimes Taskforce has helped put two men behind bars for laundering money and evading tax. Anthony Castagna and Robert Agius, both from New South Wales, were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment each. The pair used an ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
Think it's called a "swan dive" not a "Turkey" dive but this is exactly what the Turkish lira did over the past week as it engaged the world's biggest superpower into a diplomatic stoush. "I fought the law and the law won." - The Clash America ...

Funds SA appoints chair, director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
The $30 billion public fund manager has chosen a former UniSuper head of public markets to chair its board, while another investment veteran is joining the board as a director. Both spots opened up when former South Australia Deputy Premier and Treasurer ...