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Former financial adviser charged

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... shareholders with at least $2000 worth of holdings each, before its shares can be quoted and traded on the ASX. The corporate regulator banned Kawecki from providing financial services for seven years in 2018, and ASIC commissioner Cathie Armour noted ...

CFS trims corporate super distribution team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
Colonial First State (CFS) has handed redundancies to about seven distribution staff working on its corporate superannuation offering as inflows into FirstChoice Employer stall. The departures - all business development managers - come as FirstChoice ...

Super trustees to formulate whistleblower policies

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
The corporate regulator is expecting superannuation trustees to have whistleblower policies in place 1 January 2020. ASIC is broadening the whistleblower regime introduced on 1 July 2019 in an effort to reform to the corporate sector. It is proposing ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... below zero" but not below negative 0.35%. "The RBNZ could also conduct large scale purchases of either government or corporate bonds, known as quantitative easing" or "the targeted use of fiscal policy to support any unconventional monetary policy," ...

Platinum funds leak over $100m

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... where the fund's responsible entity acts as the market maker instead of an external entity filing the role. The corporate regulator is currently reviewing some sections of the active ETF market and has stopped ASX and Chi-X from admitting new active ...

JANA hires quantitative applications lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... year in an effort to boost its footprint. Its headcount of about 100 is split into 74 investment professionals and 26 corporate and support staff. John Montague joined the Melbourne-based firm as the new head of operations after working as a consultant ...

Industry super fund adds director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
A $2.6 billion industry superannuation fund appointed a former corporate super investment officer to its board. Following the departure of long-serving director Andrew Cooke, AvSuper has welcomed former Actuaries Institute president Geoff Burgess as ...

Spaceship co-founder to exit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... launched a mobile-app-based investment product last year. It is now eyeing $300 million. But it is not planning to bid for corporate superannuation tenders to grow its funds under management, Moore told Financial Standard. "We are not specifically looking ...

MLC Life appoints new executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... responsibility will be to create new growth opportunities as it relates to group distribution, the industry fund sector and large corporate market, while maintaining a focus on the customer, the insurer said. He will report directly to Sean McCormack ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... with an MSCI ESG government rating below BB are also out, "in an effort to extend ESG considerations beyond typical corporate risk," according to BlackRock. VicSuper chief investment officer Andrew Howard said the super fund's members were taking ...