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Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
The word governance only appears nine times in the Wallace report, but 48 times in the Murray report, and many more times than that in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Magellan Financial Group reported a 110% increase in net profit for the year to 30 June 2015 mainly thanks to double digit returns in all of its funds. "The largest contributor to funds under management during the past was actually investment performance. ...

Retail funds get behind campaign to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Retail superannuation funds have entered industry fund territory and admitted that high super fees need to be lowered. The Financial Services Council (FSC), which represents the retail side of the superannuation industry, has stated that "superannuation ...

Blue Sky flushes dunnies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has sold its majority stake in portable toilet hire company Viking Rentals, to which it felt a special attachment because it was one of its first investments. Blue Sky has sold the stake to an Adelaide-based investment group ...

Poor digital experience set to hurt revenue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Australia's top brands' failure to improve poor digital experience will lose customers to more tech-friendly companies, a report by SAP found. The SAP 'Australian digital experience report' found that 47% of the survey's 3,000 respondents were unsatisfied ...

Bendigo wealth earnings fall 20pct despite acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank cash earnings for its wealth management division are down 20.5%, despite the acquisition of a stake in a superannuation fund. Australia's fifth largest bank reported its results for the year to 30 June 2015 and confirmed that ...

Philanthropists donate $6.2m through Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Perpetual clients have donated $6.2 million to not-for-profit organisations through the inaugural IMPACT Philanthropy Partnership program. The donations are a small part of the overall $85 million that Perpetual has distributed this year on behalf of ...

Macquarie adviser forged signatures, lied to clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
An authorised representative of Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) has been banned for six years after the regulator found that he forged client documents. Shawn Hickman engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on his clients' accounts between November ...

Financial services industry unites for marriage equality

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Australia's financial services businesses have put rivalries aside and got ahead of politics in a country-wide campaign to support marriage equality. A total of 562 organisations, among which are Australia's top financial services businesses, have signed ...

FSC awards industry execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
The FSC awarded eight top executives for their contributions to the industry at the conference gala dinner, which took place last night at Movie World, on the Gold Coast. The eight winners were Perpetual senior risk manager Alan Lewitton, AMP's Janet ...