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Advice complaints low: AFCA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... ombudsmen at AFCA, said investments complaints only make up about 5%, with the vast majority of AFCA's work focussed on credit complaints. About 2700 complaints related to investments and advice were received in 2019. "Given the amount of advice given ...

Focus to acquire stake in MEDIQ

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... acquisitions for a total of US $556,782. The company paid for these by a combination of cash flow from its operations and from its credit facility of roughly USD $1.8 billion.

Super fund director departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... were "calibrated" by conversations with other directors. "In terms of the complexity, however, I probably gave too much credit to my financial experience. I learned quickly that the financial skills that are applied to the super industry sit adjacent ...

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... growth had a slump in productivity to blame; predicting figures could swing below zero in the coming year. So too, do weak credit growth, the end of a real estate cycle, and dwindling trade and consumer confidence levels, point to a slowdown in Chinese ...

FSC calls for CSLR claims cap

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... targeted at areas where unpaid determinations have historically arisen. It names these as financial advice, investments and credit. Following the Royal Commission, the government committed to establishing the CSLR so as to ensure consumers and small ...

Perpetual awards mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
An American fund manager has scored Perpetual as its first Aussie institutional client with a credit mandate. Perpetual has mandated Thornburg Investment Management which is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico and represented here by Melbourne-based ...

Perpetual announces new executive hire

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... and chief operating officer for Singapore. Prior to her current role, Gazal also held senior roles at Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse in Asia and London. Perpetual chief executive, Rob Adams, said the creation of the role was a key appointment to the ...

Macquarie suit to lead Challenger joint venture

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... hired from Macquarie's Sydney offices, as they appoint an Australia head for their joint venture which is readying a credit fund. Ares Australia Management was set up in October last year as a joint venture between $213 billion Ares Management Corporation ...

Calls for review of advice regulation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... federal acts advisers were required to comply with, including the Corporations Act, Tax Agent Services Act, National Consumer Credit Protection Act, and other obligations imposed under the ASIC Act and FASEA to name a few. "Often there is no harmonisation ...

FPA partners with Deakin University

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has partnered with Deakin Business School to allow financial planners to combine a Masters of Financial Planning with its Certified Financial Planning (CFP) program. It comes after the FPA signaled in ...