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HNW advice firm backs AfterPay rival

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... $30 million for a homegrown AfterPay rival, in a private debt opportunity for its clients. Escala Partners worked with corporate advisory firm Henslow to inject $30 million in debt and equity funding into buy-now-pay-later company PayRight. Escala's ...

Clayton Utz finally hands AMP notes to ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... ASIC has struck a major blow in its court battle with AMP over the wealth manager's fee-for-no-service issues. The corporate regulator was handed internal file notes from law firm Clayton Utz last week, which relate to the firm's interviews with ...

ASIC scolds banks over fee-for-no-service delays

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... institutions are taking too long to remediate customers over their fee-for-no-service issues and ASIC is not pleased. The corporate regulator released an update to the "further review" programs currently underway at six of Australia's largest financial ...

Pinnacle boutique opens LIT offer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... MXT). MXT's portfolio is lower risk with investments spread across both investment grade and sub-investment grade corporate loans). It also has a lower return net target of cash rate plus 3.25% per annum and pays out distributions monthly.

Super fund chief executive to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
The chief executive of one of Australia's largest corporate superannuation funds is retiring and the fund is hunting for a replacement. Doug Carmichael is slated to retire in June end after nine years of leading Commonwealth Bank Group Super. The ...

Macquarie chief executive on striking a balance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... Wikramanayake spoke about how she managed competing commitments between raising a family and working her way up the corporate ladder at Macquarie Group. Wikramanayake has two children, now teenagers. Her husband stopped working not long after they had ...

Gender pay gap should be government priority

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... increasing funding for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and supporting female angel investor networks. The ASX Corporate Governance Council recently revised its principles and urged ASX300 companies to have a minimum 30% gender diversity target. ...

Influential women in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... chartered accountant. Prior to QIC, she was a senior analyst at Ernst &Young in the transaction advisory services and corporate tax division.

New life insurer is RC good news story

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... Royal Commission issues, integration of the businesses that they've acquired," he said. "They're going to rebuild their corporate culture in line with the requirements of the Royal Commission. They have to replace their legacy systems, and we've already ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... reporting practices and to adopt strategies that more firmly consider shareholders' interest, as companies with better corporate governance are more likely to be owned by foreign investors. Many companies with good corporate governance practices ...