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Global manager appoints Aussie equities lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... Aberdeen Standard Investments' head of Australian equities after 15 years with the team. She moves into the role as Robert Penaloza leaves to start as Aberdeen Standard's head of Thailand. Lopez was previously the deputy head of the team. She ...

Blue Sky dissolves chief executive role

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... Joel Cann left the organisation effective Friday, 7 June 2019," Blue Sky said in company filings this morning. On June 4, Robert Kaye resigned as a director of the company. Today's announcement comes after Blue Sky entered receivership on May 20, as ...

Former Futuro adviser charged with theft

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... facing up to 15 years behind bars following allegations he stole $179,600 from a deceased estate of which he was executor. Robert Pryor Smith appeared in the Adelaide Magistrate's Court charged with 27 dishonesty offences last week. ASIC alleges that ...

Magellan changes board responsibilities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... non-executive director in March, 2016 and is a member of the audit and risk committee and remuneration and nominations committee. Robert Fraser has been appointed as the chair of the responsible entity and main operating subsidiary, Magellan Asset Management. ...

Suncorp Super faces action over adviser pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
Two law firms are working to bring a class action against a retail superannuation fund, with existing and former members suing over conflicted remuneration paid to financial advisers. Suncorp Portfolio Service, also known as Suncorp Super, is facing ...

Court throws out Aurora fund takeover bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... financial officer. "We are not hiding the fact that we are going in to investigate," Primary Securities managing director Robert Garton-Smith told Financial Standard in January. The orders issued yesterday have been stayed for seven days to allow Primary ...

Government to revisit retirement incomes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... proposal for consultation, the covenant was ultimately put on the back burner. In late 2018, then Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert announced the Covenant would be legislated by 1 July 2019 and commence on 1 July 2020.

Super gets an insider in ministry reshuffle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... Finance, Charities and Electoral Matters, while Michael Sukkar steps into the Assistant Treasurer role vacated by Stuart Robert, who takes on the NDIS and Government Services portfolios. Returning to their previous positions are Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ...

MLC Life wins group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
MLC Life Insurance has won a group insurance mandate from a $6 billion superannuation fund. It will replace AIA Australia. Maritime Super members will be covered for death, TPD and income protection insurance under a new agreement with MLC Life that's ...

VGI Partners' dual pitch to investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... and a 4.9% discount to May 7 close. Manager IPO VGI Partners was set up by former Caledonia Investments portfolio manager Robert Luciano in 2009. The company manages about $2.1 billion through its master fund ($814 million), offshore funds ($246 million) ...