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Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Westpac has settled a class action relating to life insurance sold through its financial advice network. The class action was brought against Westpac Group by Shine Lawyers in 2017. It claimed that between 2011 and 2017, customers who received financial ...

Westpac earnings take hit

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
The bank has announced a $282 million hit to its statutory profit after an increase in customer refunds, software write-downs and accounting losses, ahead of its interim results. Westpac recorded $220 million in customer refunds, payments, associated ...

New board director at AFIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia ($680.2 million), BHP ($607.6 million), CSL ($578.3 million), Wesfarmers ($288.3 million), Westpac ($379.5 million). Its 10-year return is 9.6% p.a. to benchmark's 9.5% including franking.

Pendal gets $900m net inflows

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
Pendal Group saw $900 million in net inflows in the quarter ending March, taking its assets over $100 billion again. Pendal ended March with $101.7 billion in total funds under management (FUM), 4.4% higher than December's closing FUM of $97.4 billion. ...

Atlas Wealth launches mortgage brokerage

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
Atlas Wealth Management has launched a mortgage-broking business and appointed a director to help expatriates buy property in Australia. Atlas Mortgages is led Jeremy Harper as director, an experienced mortgage broker who's also worked in accounting ...

BUSSQ appoints two executive managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
The $5 billion industry fund has appointed two executive managers. Camille Magee moved to executive manager, relationships, growth and advice, Financial Standard's sister publication Industry Moves confirmed. Magee has previously worked at Equipsuper ...

Junk insurance lands Westpac in court

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
ASIC is taking Westpac to the Federal Court, alleging it sold junk credit insurance to 384 customers that did not want it and whose accounts were unlawfully debited to pay for the premiums. The corporate regulator has exposed dodgy sales of add-on insurance ...

Hostplus wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
Hostplus has been chosen as successor fund for about $210 million of member assets from AUSfund, as the latter closes its doors after 33 years. AUSfund, which was set up as a fund for unclaimed or dormant superannuation funds, is owned by an Industry ...

Risk inflows stagnant, satisfaction varies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... satisfaction rating of 87.3%, averaged over the 12 months to February 2021 followed by Medibank (81.9%), Zurich (77.6%), Westpac (74.5%), MLC Life (74.4%) and AIA (71.3%). On the lower end of the spectrum was TAL Group at 67.2% and AMP at 54.4%. "A customer ...

DDO to simplify general, personal advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
The outcome of the High Court decision on general advice will have an interesting and simplifying effect on the design and distribution obligations coming into effect later this year, according to a lawyer. Speaking at a Financial Services Council (FSC) ...