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FPA appoints new chair, director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
The Financial Planning Association has chosen a board member to chair its board. Marisa Broome will move into the role when current chair Neil Kendall's term concludes in November. She has worked in the financial services industry for over three decades ...

ANZ chief says remediation is "distracting"

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... given it is being replaced by AFCA, it shows that customers still aren't being remediated properly or getting the justice they deserve.

Legal woes continue for super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... informed decision as to whether Rest directors were complying with their legal obligations. McVeigh, backed by Environmental Justice Australia, has now updated the claim to allege Rest has failed to act in his best interests by not properly considering ...

Advisers granted stat dec authorisation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2018
Financial advisers now have the status to sign statutory declarations under Commonwealth law. Advisers are now recognised as an additional category of people who are authorised to witness a Commonwealth statutory declaration, as outlined in the new ...

Member takes $50 billion industry fund to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... risks, when selecting investments in their portfolios and when exercising voting rights." Despite this, Environmental Justice Australia principal lawyer David Barnden said Rest has long-term investments in property and infrastructure and public companies ...

CBA should have done more: Federal Court

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... pecuniary penalty over its role in setting the bank bill swap rate said the bank should have better supervised its staff. Justice Beach of the Federal Court delivered the assessment in noting the terms of a court enforceable undertaking entered into ...

Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... implicit values enshrined in the text, context and purpose of the ASIC Act specifically and the Corporations Act generally," Justice Jonathan Beach said in his judgement. In the four occasions where the bank was ruled to have engaged in unconscionable ...

Vale Terry Mackenroth

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... rugby league matched his passion for the game," Morris said. Morris said Mackenroth had an unwavering commitment to social justice and was a fierce advocate for the interests of members. His astute knowledge of both government and corporate environments ...

ASIC closes doors on Storm charges with two fines

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... $70,000 fines are adequate or not, or over the top, or unfair in circumstances where nobody else has been prosecuted - well, Justice Edelman conceded that there was no criminality. No fraud. All the money, essentially, had been accounted for. In fact ...

Former Provident Capital MD still banned but allowed procedural fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... the maximum banning period ASIC can impose under section 206F of the Corporations Act. On 7 March 2018, Federal Court Justice Nye Perram found an error was made in O'Sullivan's AAT hearing on 2 May 2017. "ASIC accepted the AAT had made an error of law ...