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Super funds to front committee hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
... AustralianSuper, Aware Super, IFM Investors and Prime Super. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees and the Reserve Bank of Australia will front the committee on Wednesday, September 22.

Metrics hires three senior leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
... director of sustainable finance, responsible for developing sustainable finance strategies. She joined from National Australia Bank where she was director of sustainable finance. Prior to that she was a senior adviser to the Climate Bonds Initiative ...

Criminal charges filed against CBA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
ASIC has brought 30 criminal charges against Commonwealth Bank for mis-selling consumer credit insurance, with the bank to plead guilty. The charges relate to CBA's promotion and sale of CreditCard Plus and Loan Protection policies as an add-on insurance ...

Global firm expands into Aussie wealth management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
A London-headquartered behavioural finance firm has announced plans to expand into the Australian wealth management sector. Oxford Risk has hired Bianca Kent as head of client and strategy, to be based in Sydney, as it enters the market. The firm builds ...

CMC Markets buys ANZ Share Investing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
The online trading platform is set to pay $25 million for the big four bank's share investing client base as the latter continues to simplify its banking strategy. The transaction will see 500,000 ANZ Share Investing clients with total assets in excess ...

Ord Minnett names head of equities

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... cap equity sales at capital markets and investment group CLSA for over a year and was a research associate at Commonwealth Bank for five-and-a-half years. Ord Minnett recently appointed a new state manager for Queensland and senior investment adviser. ...

Recovery set to slow: OECD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... that Australia will suddenly reconsider a broad-carbon tax," he said. The survey also called for a review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) as it has not met inflation targets, which Frydenberg acknowledged and said he would consider. "The key criticism ...

ME Bank faces criminal charges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
ME Bank has appeared in Federal Court, facing criminal charges for allegedly making false and misleading representations in letters to its home loan customers. It is also alleged that the bank failed to provide written notice about annual interest rate ...

CFS reduces premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... expected to be completed in the coming months. Following completion of the transaction, CFS will be owned by Commonwealth Bank and KKR in partnership. FirstChoice was one of the 13 MySuper products to fail the Your Future, Your Super performance test. ...

Kiwi markets regulator names new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... exports financial services and represents around 25% of Gibraltar's economy. She is also a former economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and worked at the Financial Services Authority in London (now known as the Financial Conduct Authority). "Samantha ...