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Labor now opposes advice Royal Commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Labor and the Coalition are opposing renewed calls from Greens senators for a Royal Commission into financial advice and financial institutions. Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson filed a notice of motion on Tuesday calling on the government "to establish ...

KPMG hires heavy in financial services

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
KPMG Australia's advisory division is positioning itself for a year where large corporates are expected to have more appetite for mergers and acquisitions. This is reflected in the company's recent intake of 51 new partners and executive directors ...

John Waller retires from NAB, BNZ

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
John Waller will retire as a National Australia Bank board member and as chairman of Bank of New Zealand and be replaced by Doug McKay. Waller has been an NAB non-executive director and chairman of its subsidiary BNZ since 2008 and will leave those ...

Cbus hires equities investment specialist

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Cbus has appointed a former Nomura Asset Management senior portfolio manager to the role of equities investment specialist. Kiran Singh will start on the role with Cbus on 27 July and he will relocate to Australia from Singapore, where he worked for ...

Nominations open for AFA Adviser of the Year Award

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Nominations for this year's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Adviser of the Year Award are now open. Advisers can nominate themselves, or may be nominated by their peers, their licensee or PDM/BDM. On launching the award, now into its 13th year ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the submissions deadline for the Tax White Paper will be extended by six weeks to July 24. Hockey said that this was because of the "strong public response" to the whitepaper along with "stakeholder interest in the ...

K2 to list managed fund on the ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
K2 Asset Management will list a version of its actively managed K2 Global Equities Fund on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The fund invests in globally listed equities, focusing on high quality stocks. The strategy is actively managed, index ...

Advice firm acquires $1bn accountancy business

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Aura Group has acquired a majority stake in Accountable Financial Group (AFG), an accountancy firm with a focus on self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and just under $1 billion in assets under advice. Aura Group managing director Calvin Ng said the acquisition ...

Platinum to launch Asia LIC

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
Platinum Asset Management has launched an initial public offering of securities for Platinum Asia Investments Limited, an ASX listed investment company (LIC). The offering seeks to raise a minimum of $150 million, with Platinum intending to subscribe ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
Australia has come dead last in a study of portfolio disclosure standards across 29 countries. The Morningstar Global Fund Investor Experience Report assesses managed fund investor experiences in 25 countries (expanded to 29 for the published article) ...