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ASIC grilled over negotiating with banks

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The Royal Commission today questioned ASIC over its practice of heavily negotiating enforceable undertaking outcomes with financial advice licensees. Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr asked ASIC senior executive leader - financial advisers, Louise ...

High profile adviser under fire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... by McKenna to the advice firm. Henderson also advised McKenna to sell down a managed account she held with another organisation. "I might interpose that that obviously hadn't been examined as it was a term deposit and couldn't be sold down at that point ...

Unions lobby super sector to cut big bank, AMP ties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is calling on industry superannuation funds to review partnerships with the big banks in light of issues exposed at the financial services Royal Commission. In a letter to industry fund chief executives, ACTU secretary ...

RC questions adviser sales tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... its remuneration models whereby revenue will not be the "hero item." Commissioner Kenneth Hayne questioned why the organisation doesn't value the idea of advisers simply providing genuine advice whereby nothing else needed to be done or no other products ...

Royal Commission must be extended: FSU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The union representing workers in the financial services sector is calling for an extension of the financial services Royal Commission, as revelations of misconduct continue to arise from the inquiry. The Finance Sector Union said the inquiries of Commissioner ...

Global manager sells distribution platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
An investment management firm with €830.8billion ($1.3 trillion) in assets under management has entered negotiations to sell its fund distribution platform. Natixis Investment Managers have started exclusive negotiations with global fund distribution ...

WA Super awards admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... months. WA Super general manager client services Paul Owen said: "Following a rigorous tender process, we chose the organisation that best integrated with our core member platform." Owen added SuperChoice is simple for employers to use and takes the ...

LGIAsuper appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
LGIAsuper has ended a five-month search for a chief executive, appointing a former McKinsey & Company implementation leader. Kate Farrar takes on the role at LGIAsuper having been at McKinsey & Company for nearly two years. Before that, she was a managing ...

Financial services data breaches recorded

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
The Australian finance sector was responsible for 13% of notifiable data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the first quarter of 2018. The OAIC Quarterly Statistics report outlined the top five industry sectors ...

Netwealth sells Pathway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... ASX. Netwealth joint managing director Matt Heine said it was important for Netwealth that Pathway was sold to an organisation focused on and aligned to the core advice technology services Pathway provides. "We strongly believe that IRESS has the resources ...