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YBR in trading halt, flags loss

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... deadline of 15 March 2019. It last traded at 5.4 cents per share, plunging from about 14 cents compared to a year ago. Freedom Insurance Group also failed to file its FY19 interim results as it assesses the state of its financial position.

Freedom Insurance misses reporting deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
Freedom Insurance Group has failed to file FY19 interim results and its shares remain suspended. The embattled firm provided an update on its financial position to the ASX overnight, stating it is "unable to provide an accurate estimate of when the ...

Freedom Insurance suspends trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
Freedom Insurance Group has requested the ASX to suspend its shares indefinitely. Freedom first requested a trading halt on February 5 based on a "pending announcement providing a material update on the financial position of Freedom and its subsidiaries." ...

Pendal acquires Regnan

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... after nearly six years. She was replaced by Pauline Vamos who left after 12 months and later joined the embattled insurer Freedom Insurance Group. Regnan's acting chief executive Alison George said: "This represents an exciting new chapter for Regnan ...

Quirky SMSF investments unveiled

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... with the offspring; Taxi plate worth $220,000; and A 1950 Austin A40 ute valued at $4000. LaGreca said SMSFs enables the freedom to directly invest in what members think is best for the fund. The most common exotic investments are allocated as either ...

Ten stories that defined the Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... to lead the bank in January this year, said he didn't underestimate the magnitude of turning the bank's culture around. Freedom sold life insurance to intellectually disabled man September saw Freedom Insurance shock Australia when the Royal Commission ...

$200k on the life-line for new Freedom chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... secure the firm a life insurance licence. Former TAL general manager Sean Williamson began his tenure as chief executive of Freedom on 14 December. The life insurance distributer today confirmed Williamson's remuneration to the ASX, which is a fixed ...

Freedom ditches life insurance sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
Freedom Insurance Group announced it will stop selling life insurance products and alerted shareholders of the likelihood it will face a liquidity crisis next year. The board of the embattled insurer has decided to search for alternative business models ...

Vamos joins embattled insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... insurance company which was taken to task during the Royal Commission. Vamos is now a non-executive director on the board of Freedom Insurance Group, the insurer that was admonished in the sixth round of the Royal Commission for deliberately selling ...

Freedom drops chief, slashes workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
The chief executive of Freedom Insurance Group has left the company effective immediately and more than half of its workforce is being made redundant. Chief executive Keith Cohen, who has been at the helm for nearly nine years, will be replaced by chief ...