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New manager raising $30m for crypto fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... funds dedicated exclusively to cryptocurrency investments. Anti Hero Capital, whose managing partners also founded tech agency M5859, are launching the fund to wholesale investors after following developments in cryptocurrencies since 2013. The firm ...

CBA advice failures unacceptable: Comyn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... regarding the provision of, annual reviews to the customers. Apart from the latest $3 million payment, the law enforcement agency has set out several other conditions of which Commonwealth Financial Planning must comply. BW Financial Advice ceased trading ...

Cryptocurrency service providers now regulated: AUSTRAC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... has implemented the first laws for cryptocurrency service providers operating in Australia as the financial intelligence agency looks to mitigate criminal risk in the sector. AUSTRAC's new suite of cryptocurrency laws will regulate digital currency exchange ...

Super calculators given further ASIC relief

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... inflation requirement will not apply to retirement and superannuation calculators until 1 July 2019. The law enforcement agency said this extension does not affect other provisions of ASIC's relief for calculators. ASIC explains that a generic financial ...

Most investors shun credit ratings: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... S&P Global Ratings Australia, and found more work needed to be done when it came to compliance matters. ASIC found some agency's board did not meet regularly and should do so to comply with its AFSL. It also found that one agency's compliance review ...

ASIC bans Perth adviser

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... considered his clients' circumstances in relation to the waiting periods for income protection policies. The law enforcement agency looked at several of Leake's client files from Wealthsure Financial Services Pty Ltd, where he was an authorised representative ...

CBA denies majority of latest AUSTRAC allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... Federal Court, CBA said it "denies 89 allegations in full and admits 11 allegations in part." The financial intelligence agency slapped the bank with new allegations in an amended statement of claim on top of the 53,700 alleged contraventions it identified ...

Employers of choice work to close super gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... workplace. First State Super and TAL have been named as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). First State chief executive Michael Dwyer said: "The impact of gender inequality is particularly evident when ...

O'Dwyer proposes compulsory unpaid super law

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... robbing employees of their superannuation. These measures follow the recommendations of the Superannuation Guarantee Cross-Agency Working Group, which made targeted proposals for overcoming barriers to better compliance, she said. Last year the Government ...

Legalsuper appoints new client service manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... currently serves as chair of the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority and the International Women's Development Agency and as a non-executive director of Swinburne University and Peninsula Health. Mander said legalsuper "is an important ...