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Latitude IPOs despite spotted past

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... Financial has had a series of run-ins with ASIC over recent years. In 2017, Latitude Insurance (the trading name for Hallmark General Insurance, part of the Latitude Group) had to refund $1.1 million for poor consumer credit insurance sales and claims ...

Afterpay reveals US plans, economic impact

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
With consumers in the US now contributing the most to Afterpay's business, the BNPL provider has set in motion plans to list there as new research shows the economic impact of the service. Revealed in a quarterly update yesterday, Afterpay is working ...

SuperFriend appoints chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... managing director of its asset finance company Esanda. Proust was also ANZ's managing director, Metrobanking and group general manager, human resources, corporate affairs and management services. Prior to joining ANZ, Proust was secretary of the Department ...

MLC GM joins dealer group

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
The former general manager of MLC Financial Planning and the MLC advice network has jumped to a dealer group aligned with a real estate agent. Wealth Market, which is associated with Ray White and Loan Market, has appointed Jasia Fabig as national practice ...

MLC Life makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... and Integrity Life. Lesley Mamelok, who was formerly the acting chief executive of Integrity Life, has been appointed general manager, finance and deputy chief financial officer. At MLC Life, Mamelok will oversee the financial management and control ...

FSC proposes new advice model

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... fall within the target market of their products. The alternate model in line with the DDO will categorise advice into general information and personal advice. The latter is split across simple personal advice and complex personal advice. Strategic and ...

Granny flat tax exemption to become law

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
The government has commenced consultation on exposure draft legislation that will reduce the tax burden on granny flats in a move to prevent elder financial abuse. The legislation follows the budget announcement that the government would provide a targeted ...

Women participation rate booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... March, in addition to her portfolios of superannuation, financial services and the digital economy. Amid former attorney-general Christian Porter's historic rape allegations, Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejigged several cabinet positions taken ...

Risk advice most sought-after among Kiwis

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... among advisers, followed by advice provided on KiwiSaver (48%), mortgage products and consumer credit contracts (37%), and general insurance and managed funds, which drew 32% respectively. New Zealand has 10,736 financial advisers in total and 12,287 ...

Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
The architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in US history has died in prison aged 82. Bernie Madoff had been serving his sentence at FMC Butner, an administrative security federal medical centre for male offenders located in North Carolina, at the time ...