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APRA, ASIC provide annual update

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have released their annual engagement update for 2021. Reinforcing Australia's twin peaks model of regulation, the agencies said they ...

Crestone to be acquired by LGT Group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... It has about $400 billion in assets that it manages on behalf of high-net-worth individuals and institutions. LGT Group chair H.S.H Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein said: "Crestone is a preeminent wealth advisory firm with excellent further growth ...

OnePath Custodians sued over fees for no service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... correctly by their superannuation providers. ASIC's case alleges that OnePath failed to do so in this case," ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said. According to court documents, ANZ has agreed to remediate or has already remediated those members that ...

Challenger taps Hamilton for top job

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... innovation, both at Challenger and across the financial services industry in Australia and internationally," Challenger chair Peter Polson said. He added that Hamilton has played a central role in diversifying Challenger's offering across Australia ...

FIRB reappoints Irvine as chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
The Morrison government has reappointed David Irvine as the chair of the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) for a further two-year period. The former ambassador to China and high commissioner to Papua New Guinea was first appointed to the FIRB as ...

State Super sets net zero targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... refine its longer-term strategy, including via insights revealed with the continuing improvement of market data." State Super chair Nicholas Johnson said the plan is in the best financial interests of the fund's 93,270 members, saying: "It has become ...

Economic recap: Week to December 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... didn't have that in 2020. So much so that, after insisting that the recent surge in inflation is "transitory" for months, Fed chair Powell (in his testimony before the US Congress at the end of November) declared that it's "probably a good time ...

New appointments to FSC board

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has today announced the appointments of AMP Australian Wealth Management chief executive Scott Hartley, and Challenger chief executive, people, corporate affairs and strategy Michelle Taylor, as directors to the ...

Longo's ASIC less aggressive: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... contemporaries. Herbert Smith Freehills' Global Financial Services Regulatory Outlook found ASIC's enforcement approach under new chair Longo is more nuanced, while regulators overseas are taking more aggressive regulatory stances. "Where there has ...

ASIC sues ANZ in final civil RC case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... customers. These customers were entitled to receive the benefits they signed up for and in many instances paid for," ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said. "This case is yet another example of a widespread system failure by a major bank impacting thousands ...