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Queen's honours highlight industry veterans, ESG experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
Several well-known names in the financial services industry, past and present, were recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours. Awarded in the General Division of the Order of Australia was former Superannuation Trust of Australia (STA) and ...

Leading wealth management marketers recognised

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2022
... Swyftx, won integrated campaign of the year. Of the agency categories, Ptarmigan Media won agency of the year - financial services, while Honner won public relations agency of the year and Nibble Digital won creative agency of the year. The two organisations ...

Superhero, Swyftx in $1.5bn merger

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
Superhero and Swyftx will merge to establish a $1.5 billion financial services giant with over 800,000 customers. The partnership between digital asset broker Swyftx and share trading and investment and superannuation platform Superhero is expected ...

ASIC freezes assets of unlicensed property mogul

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
... which was typically forecast to be between 18 and 24 months. ASIC further alleges Hopkins has been running a financial services business without a licence by providing personal advice to investors, which included advising investors to roll over their ...

ASIC releases estimate cost recovery levies for 2021/22

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... reforms. ASIC stated the approximate budgeted cost recovery would be $24.01 million across 2759 Australian financial services licensees. This figure is down from $25.76 million in 2020/21. Constituting a much smaller cost recovery amount of $500,000 ...

Spaceship chair banned for two years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
The chair of Spaceship Capital has been banned by ASIC for failing to understand all the financial services offered by the group. Paul Ernest Dortkamp has been banned from performing functions as an officer and responsible manager of a financial services ...

Stuart Robert named shadow financial services minister

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
Stuart Robert has been handed the financial services portfolio in Peter Dutton's shadow ministry, while Angus Taylor is shadow Treasurer and Jane Hume becomes finance minister. Robert has been appointed as the shadow assistant treasurer and shadow minister ...

Apostle Funds Management appoints chief operating officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... officer at Apostle Funds Management. Chu joins in the newly created role with over a decade of experience in financial services, including a career in fund accounting at Custom House Global Fund Services and middle and back-office functions with Link ...

ASIC succeeds in application to liquidate Ascent

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... remain in Australia after the Federal Court froze his assets. It was suspected that Ascent had been providing financial services without an Australian financial services licence and had been operating an unregistered managed investment scheme that was ...

Pendal launches new charitable investment vehicle

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... the market through our partnership with Pendal, marking an Australian-first innovation in the ways that the financial services sector can contribute to charitable outcomes." "Recent decades have seen the emergence of new philanthropic structures, such ...