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Federal oversight of financial services sector clarified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... Frydenberg has now confirmed that responsibility for the sector will be split between himself and Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert. Frydenberg will oversee ASIC, APRA and the ACCC and will also be responsible for responding to the Royal Commission. ...

Adviser, Practice of the Year finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
The 2018 finalists for the Association of Financial Advisers' most coveted accolades have been announced. In partnership with Zurich, the AFA has announced the three finalists for the 2018 Adviser of the Year Award. This year, Capital Focused's ...

Custodians oversee heightened domestic equity trades

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... multi-currency trading, valuation across currencies and implementation of hedging strategies," ACSA said. ACSA chief executive Robert Brown said: "The custody industry continues to mature with over a third of all client assets invested internationally ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... million to Australian Family, a marketing and communications firm. Australian Family's chief executive is the brother of Robert Clancy, the super fund's head of institutional relations; Clancy's wife was a shareholder in the company. CSF's ...

Morrison drops financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... for Women. Newly-named deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Josh Frydenberg, replaces Morrison as Treasurer, with Stuart Robert returning to the frontbench to support him as Deputy Treasurer. ACT senator Zed Seselja is now Assistant Minister for Treasury ...

Blue Sky offloads six funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... investment from significant global investment managers" to strength its business model. Separately, former managing director Robert Shand resigned shortly after US hedge fund Glaucus Research claimed Blue Sky inflated its Australian manager's fee-earning ...

T. Rowe Price names new APAC distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... Price in 2015, Chan was a managing director at UBS Global Asset Management. Also, commenting, T. Rowe Price head of GIMS Robert Higginbotham said: "Since joining the firm in 2014, Scott has built a solid foundation for our robust and sustainable growth. ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... Financial Crimes Taskforce has helped put two men behind bars for laundering money and evading tax. Anthony Castagna and Robert Agius, both from New South Wales, were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment each. The pair used an offshore company ...

Risk and compliance expertise in demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... Royal Commission, which has helped boost the professionals' pay grade well above the national average. This is based on a Robert Walters wage analysis, which found five specialist roles recorded significant wage growth over the past six months. Civil ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Who better to talk about trade than the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In its latest report the WTO put into perspective the goings-on in the on-going global war on trade. To wit: "A total of 39 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies ...