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Ignition Advice appoints Sally Loane as chair

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... advice industry globally. "I am a long-time advocate for all Australians to be financially literate and financially independent, particularly women, who retire with less superannuation than men, and who are still subject to a gender pay gap," she said. ...

Advisers pivot to protect retirees from inflation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... short-term sacrifices to shore up their longer-term lifestyles, not to maximise the wealth they can pass on," Stephan Independent Advisory director and financial adviser James Stephan reinforced. A final lever that can be pulled to shore up retirement ...

SEC sues Binance, chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... Binance.com platform." Further, while Zhao and Binance publicly claimed that Binance.US was created as a separate, independent trading platform for US investors following the closure of the main platform, Zhao and Binance secretly controlled the Binance.US ...

Bank of Queensland slapped with EU

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... remediation plan to APRA for approval and address concerns it may have. The bank has further agreed to appoint an independent reviewer to provide written reports on the implementation of the remediation plan, whether it is sustainable and whether further ...

No regrets: Hayne reflects on Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
... Hayne wondered if customers nowadays are more empowered to make informed decisions. "If the customer cannot make any independent assessment of fitness for purpose and cannot make any useful price comparison, the customer makes the choice to accept or ...

More PwC staff to go, will remain anonymous

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
... ongoing investigation. This includes members of the firm's executive board and governance board," she explained. "Two independent, non-executive directors will be appointed to PwC Australia's governance board and this process is underway." In addition ...

Lazard implements new leadership

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... budget in the Obama Administration. "Peter is the optimal choice as the next chief executive of Lazard," Lazard lead independent director Richard D. Parsons said. "Over his career spanning both banking and government, Peter has proven to be a strategic ...

MA Financial establishes Singapore office

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... June. "Kelly's previous role was senior account manager at Wellington Management, one of the world's largest independent asset managers managing more than US$1 trillion for clients in over 60 countries," he said. Prior to that, Low held similar ...

Former industry execs launch analytics firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
... getting a good price from this manager'," he said. "As an industry, we need to get beyond these assertions and move to independent and deep data-based analyses. Data is valuable and drives so much of how we invest; why should we resist using data when ...

Treasury hands PwC tax scandal to AFP

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
... up in the fallout. Last week it was announced that former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski had been picked to lead an independent review of the firm following the matters at hand. Switkowski was named alongside PwC's own Tony O'Malley who was appointed ...