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ASIC fines trading firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... have appropriate supervisory policies and procedures from the time it became a market participant on 28 January 2019 until 4 June 2020. In addition, the MFP believed Life Trading's framework for the supervision of traders was under-resourced, uncoordinated ...

Court orders new group definition in CBA advice class action

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... as they paid the premiums out of superannuation trusts. They also claim the beneficiaries suffered no actionable loss. On June 18, orders made by Justice Beach ordered the applicants to add a third applicant to the case, flesh out the applicants' ...

GROW wins new super fund client

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
... billion Mercy Super will soon swap to GROW, after using Mercer for seven years. The transition was initially slated for a June 1 start but was delayed. The change follows the fund slashing its administration fees last year. It went from charging $1.10 ...

LGIAsuper to rebrand

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
... officer Garnett Hollier. Where roles were doubled-up among the funds, senior leaders were offered to take redundancies on 30 June of 2022, which is when LGIAsuper has committed to maintaining full employment. So far, Farrar said there have been no contested ...

Franklin Templeton shutters fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... Franklin Templeton Investments is winding up its retail Australian Equity Fund, as asset growth lags. The fund was terminated on June 16, with returns of money to investors expected by July 31. "FTIA have determined that based on the current low level ...

AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... end to the "persecution" of financial advisers, after hearing shadow cabinet secretary Jenny McAllister's comments on June 17 in debating the Treasury Laws Amendment (Self-Managed Superannuation Funds) Bill 2020 that is proposing the maximum number ...

Aware Super, MIRA acquisition progresses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... The Vocus board continues to unanimously recommend its shareholders vote in favour of the scheme. The scheme meeting is on June 22 and each director intends to vote all their shares in favour of the scheme. MIRA had previously made a bid for Vocus in ...

AFCA names human resources lead from ME Bank

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... people and culture on July 5. Kearney has been ME Bank's general manager of people experience and business partnering since June 2017. AFCA chief operating officer Justin Untersteiner said Kearney is an energetic and progressive human resources executive ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... record high reading of 25 in May. Not only that, despite the recent lockdown in Melbourne denting consumer confidence in June, the reading of 107.2 remains well-above its long-term average of 101.4 and is 14.5% higher than it was a year earlier. As per ...

AAT dismisses adviser ban appeal

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... (AAT) dismissed his application to review ASIC's decision to permanently ban him from providing financial services. On June 9, Hutchison failed to appear at an AAT directions hearing dealing with the review application after remittal from the Federal ...