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Cboe to debut FLEX micro options product

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
Cboe Global Markets has announced it plans to launch its new FLEX micro options contracts on June 27. Like standard customisable FLEX options, FLEX micro options will allow users to specify key contract terms. This includes terms such as exercise prices ...

Corporate advisor charged over $2m theft

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
Former corporate advisor Anthony Torre has been charged after allegedly stealing almost $2 million from his clients. Last Friday, Torre appeared in Perth Magistrate Court and was charged with eight counts of fraud and five counts of stealing pursuant ...

Insurers to get new advocacy body

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
Australia's life insurance industry will soon have a new peak body, the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI). Expected to launch later this year, CALI is the brainchild of a collective of life insurers who believe it is now time for the sector ...

Sue Brake to leave Future Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... deputy chief investment officer, change and innovation Wendy Norris, deputy chief investment officer, portfolio construction Ben Samild, and deputy chief investment officer, private markets Alicia Gregory. "The new team combines deep skills and capabilities ...

Squirrel Super to pay over false property claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
More than 18 months after legal action was launched, Squirrel Super will pay $55,000 for claims made in marketing materials about investing in residential property. The SMSF administrator was found by the Federal Court to have distributed a brochure ...

Dimensional launches PIEs in NZ

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
Dimensional Fund Advisors has launched two Portfolio Investments Entities (PIEs) for the New Zealand market, targeting investors with specific sustainability goals. The funds went live on June 22. Both named Dimensional Global Sustainability PIE Fund ...

Former adviser wins appeal, convictions quashed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2019 will have his case retried, having successfully argued there was a miscarriage of justice. Ben Jayaweera was a financial adviser and director of now-defunct Growth Plus Financial Group, based in Queensland. In ...

Talaria appoints sales director

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
Talaria Capital has recruited Sam Dowling as sales director to bolster the firm's business development team. Based in Talaria's Sydney office, Dowling will cover New South Wales and Western Australia to help drive the continued growth of the ...

MSC Group launches Singaporean fund service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
MSC Group has launched its fund services platform in Singapore after receiving a local capital markets licence. Its wholly owned subsidiary MSC Capital Partners Pte Ltd was issued the licence by the monetary authority of Singapore at the end of May. ...

The big case for big data

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
Big data should be a natural pathway for the superannuation fund industry, according to investment strategy experts. A session at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ASI Conference revealed the many benefits of data backed science and ...