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Link Group hires technology, marketing leads in super arm

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... with super funds UniSuper and Aware Super. Richardson comes to Link Group with 19 years' experience in the financial services industry. Most recently she created and delivered VISSF's marketing plan, adapting to achieve the fund's business objectives ...

Perpetual to acquire Pendal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
... It will be reduced by any final FY22 Pendal dividend. The acquisition would be the combination of two iconic financial services firms to create Australia's pre-eminent global asset manager, the announcement reads. They would have combined assets ...

Findex names co- chief executives amid plans to grow wealth capabilities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2022
... executives as part of a strategic expansion aimed at tripling its wealth operations. Over the next five years, the financial services company aims to triple the size of its wealth practice, growing from $17 billion in funds under asset to upwards of ...

Crypto asset reforms underway: Treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, minister for financial services Stephen Jones and minister for competition, charities and treasury Andrew Leigh have announced that work is underway on crypto asset reforms. "The Albanese government will improve the way Australia's ...

Challenger appoints Duncan West as chair

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
... the Challenger board as an independent non-executive director since 2018. He has over 30 years of board and financial services experience across the UK and Australia, including chief executive roles at Vero Insurance and CGU Insurance. West is the current ...

MSC Trustees adds to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
The fund services provider has welcomed two financial services industry veterans to its board ahead of its application to obtain CCIV authority. MSC Trustees has added Ruth McClelland and Steven O'Connell as non-executive directors, effective last week. ...

WA financial services director banned for six years

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
ASIC has banned Perth-based director Sharree Grace Hutchinson from providing financial services for six years, after she was found to have abused her power as an ASFL holder. Specifically, the regulator found that between December 2020 and January 2021 ...

Integrity Life picks AGI as group life administrator

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
... as we strive to achieve our vision to be the leading provider of third-party administration solutions to the financial services industry." From August, any new group business for Integrity Life will be administered by AGI, with Integrity Life's existing ...

Equity Trustees non-executive director retires

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
... Her track record includes stints as the former managing director of Australian Ethical and director of the Financial Services Council, the Centre for Australian Ethical Research, the ANZ Staff Superannuation Fund and The Grain Growers Association. Having ...

ASIC research guides retail investment regulations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... financial products and the licensees who use them, threatening substantial penalties of their content contravenes financial services law. Cognisant of more than half of new investors being aged between 18 and 34 years old, Longo said: "It's encouraging ...