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Former director disqualified for breaching obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
Having been involved in three failed companies, ASIC has disqualified a former financial services industry director for five years. Christian Oey was the director of two financial services companies between May 1999 and November 2018, Clickthru and ...

AllianceBernstein appoints chief AI officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
AllianceBernstein announced Andrew Chin has been named the investment firm's first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer. Chin has been working with the firm for 27 years having started as chief risk officer and head of quantitative research ...

Australian Retirement Trust delivers 11.3% in FY24

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) returned 11.3% p.a. for its High Growth option for the 2024 financial year. ART head of investment strategy Andrew Fisher told Financial Standard that equities over the last two years have been "surprisingly resilient ...

ASIC takes action against Guildfords FM, director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
ASIC has cancelled the licence of Guildfords Funds Management and banned its managing director Robert Payne for their involvement in the collapse of Magnolia Capital Group. ASIC found "significant and systemic failures of oversight and compliance" upon ...

ASIC alerts licensees to experienced pathway deadlines

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
ASIC has issued a reminder to the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensees regarding the upcoming notification obligations related to the new experienced provider pathway. Starting from next week, AFS licensees must notify ASIC by lodging a notice ...

New Zealand exits recession

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
New Zealand reported 0.2% GDP growth in the March quarter following two consecutive quarters of decline, putting to bed its technical recession for the meantime. The economy was buoyed by electricity, gas, water, and waste services; rental, hiring ...

New inspector-general of taxation appointed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
The Albanese Government has appointed Ruth Owen as the new inspector-general of taxation (IGT) for a five-year period commencing on 15 July 2024. Owen brings a wealth of experience in tax, public sector reform, complaints management and dispute resolution ...

TCorp moves to new OneFund structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
As previously flagged, the New South Wales government is moving forward with plans to consolidate several separate investment funds managed by TCorp. In September last year, the state government announced it was reviewing the way NSW's investment funds ...

NRF appoints inaugural chief investment officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) announced Mary Manning has been appointed as the organisation's inaugural chief investment officer. Manning will oversee investment strategy and portfolio management for the $15 billion fund, which ...

Northern Trust Asset Management hires head of global ETFs, funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) will welcome David Abner as head of global ETFs and funds. Reporting to NTAM global head of product Paula Kar, Abner will be responsible for NTAM's mutual fund and ETF product strategy, research and development ...