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Dexus Fund Management bolsters board

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2023
... Australian government's Takeovers Panel. Meanwhile, Phillippo has international experience across the energy, financial services, telecommunications, and technology sectors as well as the infrastructure sector having held executive roles at HRL Morrison ...

AAT upholds AFSL cancellation

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
... and a superannuation rollover business. In March 2020, ASIC cancelled the AFS licence of the Gold Coast-based financial services business following concerns it had breached several of its legal obligations, including that its representatives were not ...

Prime Super appoints new board directors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2023
... officer Gemma Dooley and Edgehaven managing director Bev Durston. Dooley has more than 30 years' experience in financial services in Australia and Asia, working with super funds, regulators, investment management teams, institutional and retail investors ...

Fin365 undertakes strategic mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2023
Software provider Fin365 is enhancing its capabilities by merging with two other financial services companies, appointing a head of technology services in the process. Fin365 will merge with Optimised Financial Planning Solutions (OFPS) and SMSF Paraplanners ...

FSC releases claims handling standard for super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has released an enforceable standard for handling group life insurance claims in superannuation. The FSC's new standard replaces existing voluntary guidance and sets a minimum level of service that consumers can ...

ASIC FAR to display adviser QTRP status

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... generally display that these financial advisers can provide tax (financial) advice services, it said. "Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensees who authorise financial advisers who are not taken to be QTRPs will need to update the FAR to record ...

Former fund manager employee permanently banned

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... higher prices. In handing down the ban, ASIC stated that Kim was not fit and proper to provide one or more financial services because of his dishonest conduct and his destruction of evidence relating to his trading, and that he was likely to contravene ...

AAT overturns ban on former Spaceship chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... handed Dortkamp the ban in June 2022 following an investigation that found he failed to understand all the financial services offered by Spaceship under its licence. Specifically, ASIC accused that in late 2018 and into early 2019, Dortkamp failed to ...

Former adviser sees ban reduced

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... representative of six different licensees over the past seven years, was originally banned in June 2021 from providing financial services and performing any function in a financial services business for a period of six years. Instead, the AAT reduced ...

Federal Court finds against finfluencer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
The Federal Court determined Tyson Scholz, known as ASX Wolf, was running an unlicensed financial services business for over a year, including providing courses on share trading and recommending stocks on Instagram. The court handed its decision down ...