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MA Financial secures $70m for property fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... interest from high-net-worth investors (HNWI) across the firm's domestic and international client bases. The financial services firm explained it was these investors who were interested in the "counter-cyclical" financial returns and exposure to Allendale ...

MLC Life adds to board

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2022
... committee, replacing Sandra Birkensleigh who has served for 10 years. Bringing over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector, Dubé is currently a non-executive director of Guild Group Holding and Guild Insurance Limited, and chair of ...

Diverger acquires licensee support firm

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022
... licensee support business, with a focus on delivering market leading solutions to self-licensed firms. The financial services company explained although it already provides services to both licensed and self-licensed advice firms, the acquisition will ...

ASIC case against Commonwealth Bank dismissed

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... deceptive conduct, made false or misleading representations and contravened its obligations as an Australian financial services licensee by incorrectly charging monthly access fees to customers. The regulator alleged that, between June 2010 and September ...

AMP appoints new chief financial officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... Santos. Prior to this, he was chief financial officer of APA Group. Fredricson has 15 years' experience in financial services and investment banking with Merrill Lynch, Tower Corporation and Grant Samuel. Fredricson will succeed current chief financial ...

Religious carve outs for faith-based super funds are dead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... the best financial interest duty. Earlier this week, a spokesperson for assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones told Financial Standard : "We remain committed to providing Australians of faith the opportunity to invest their ...

Survey shows impact of inflation on industry pay rises

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
New data has highlighted the roles within banking and financial services that will receive pay rises in excess of inflation and those that won't. According to the latest Robert Walters Salary Survey, those who can expect a median increase are wealth ...

Millions of retirees will benefit from QAR

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2022
... billion more and leave $6 billion less in bequests annually by the year 2040. According to data released by the Financial Services Council (FSC), the QAR proposals will support consumers approaching or in retirement in three ways. Firstly, by increasing ...

Code of Ethics must be fixed: Phil Anderson

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
... Code of Ethics Version 2 designed and delivered in 2023." In August the assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones announced the government would review the Code of Ethics next year. Anderson said he looks forward to the re ...

APRA urges entities to strengthen risk management

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2022
... said a strong risk culture is essential for effective risk management outcomes. In a speech, delivered at the Financial Services Assurance Forum, Bingham discussed the regulator's perspective on why a strong risk culture is so important to prudential ...