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Settlement approved in AMP shareholder class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023
... misconduct made public by the Royal Commission. An amended statement of claim was filed on 7 December 2021 by Maurice Blackburn and the case was to be heard in August, but AMP agreed to the settlement ahead of its commencement. There are 18,702 group ...

AMP shareholder class action settlement slashed

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023
... million class action settlement after legal fees are taken out should the court approve the proposed amount. Maurice Blackburn will take a $26 million cut of the settlement because of costs incurred over a five-year period that cover "investigating and ...

AMP settles class action for $110m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023
... that included among other issues, charging fees for no services under various contexts. The class actions of Maurice Blackburn, and Slater and Gordon were consolidated into one while the other three lawsuits were put on ice. Maurice Blackburn referred ...

Asset managers dismiss liquidity risks: FCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... using assumptions that were not appropriately conservative, the FCA said. FCA director of wholesale buy-side Camille Blackburn said: "We have seen examples in the market where liquidity risk has crystallised and the impact this can have on investors." ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... in retirement, contributing to women over-55 now being the largest group of homeless in Australia. As such, Maurice Blackburn is calling for mandated menopause leave as part of a broader campaign that includes paid menstrual leave. Forming a working ...

UK regulator appoints Camille Blackburn to leadership team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
... bolstering its leadership team with six new appointments, including former ASIC and Westpac senior executive Camille Blackburn as director of wholesale buy-side. Blackburn will join the FCA in October from Legal & General Investment Management, where ...

Colonial First State settles super class action for $56.3m

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... MySuper law reforms required CFS to move members to these cheaper options, which also happened to perform better. Maurice Blackburn brought the action in October 2019 in the Federal Court (Victoria), against Colonial First State Investments Limited ...

EG swoops in on Forza industrial assets

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... strategic landholdings are located within the land-constrained eastern suburbs of Melbourne at 15-33 Alfred Street, Blackburn and 6-16 Joseph Street, Blackburn North. The assets provide a combined gross lettable area of approximately 28,020sqm with a ...

CSLR unfairly locks out some victims: Maurice Blackburn

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... misconduct or fraud who pursue court proceedings - something that is inherently unfair, according to law firm Maurice Blackburn. Maurice Blackburn principal lawyer Josh Mennen raised concerns about the design of the CSLR in a submission to Treasury ...

APRA approves MLC super takeover

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... NULIS itself copped $8 million of the fine. Earlier this year, NULIS was named in a class action brought by Maurice Blackburn on behalf of 330,000 MasterKey members who accuse the trustee of breaching its duties by delaying the transition of members ...