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Former Spectrum chief cops additional bans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... in February 2020. The AAT further restricted Schroeder from controlling an entity that carries on a financial services business and performing any function involved in carrying on such a business, which includes working as an officer, manager, employer ...

Actuaries Institute devises director skills checklist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... but every director would be expected to have the ability to apply their skills as a director of a financial services business."

ASIC bans adviser, cancels AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
... corporate regulator also found that Pure Strategy failed to have adequate resources to carry out a financial services business, maintain competence to provide financial service and ensure representatives complied with the regulation. Pure Strategy also ...

Pension fund backs Aussie insurance distributor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
A major Canadian pension fund has taken a 33.4% stake in the Greenstone, the Sydney-based distributor of several retail insurance brands. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board has reached an agreement to acquire the stake from fellow Canadian pension ...

Former Millennium3 representatives cop ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
... the corporate regulator. Timothy William Parry and Damian Garnet Price are forbidden to control a financial services business or serve as officers for six years, after ASIC found that they breached their duties while working as director and officer respectively. ...

AFCA weeds out phony complaints

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has made changes to its procedures to weed out complaints where the consumer didn't really suffer any financial harm. AFCA received feedback from financial institutions, particularly small to medium ...

Allianz Retire+ chief steps down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Allianz Australia Life Insurance and Allianz Retire+ has announced the sudden departure of its chief executive Matthew Rady and appointed an interim replacement. Rady was first appointed in 2018 as the inaugural chief executive of Allianz Retire+ and ...

Halifax auditors face criminal charges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... financial statements to ensure that AFSL holders have sufficient financial resources to conduct their financial services business in compliance with the Act."

CountPlus acquires tech solution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
CountPlus announced a 51% investment in a paraplanning and administration service. The listed dealer group has acquired the majority stake in Wealth Axis, which is a boutique provider of paraplanning, technology and administration support services to ...

Moelis Australia to rebrand

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... brand and visual identity. "...The MA name also represents the group's future as a diversified financial services business with a strong focus on asset management activities, alongside our significant advisory and transaction-based capabilities," ...