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Accessing super cements inequality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... earners in Australia, with findings illustrating harm caused by the early release of super program. The Brotherhood of St Lawrence Shocks and Safety Nets report found that financial wellbeing decreased for low-income earners during the pandemic. Many ...

Pallas hires executive director of lending

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
Boutique debt and equity fund manager Pallas Capital has welcomed a new executive director of lending. Steve Lawrence joins Pallas in the newly created role from La Trobe Financial, where he was the chief lending officer, a role he held for 13 years. ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... Shane Patton Did current US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (under Biden's administration) just call former US Secretary Lawrence Summers (under Clinton's) a coward? I refer of course to Madame Yellen's defence of President Biden's ginormous US$1.9 trillion ...

Responsible lending laws to be revoked

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... the right customer protections, is paramount," she said. The Customer Owned Banking Association chief executive Michael Lawrence agrees: "Customer owned banking institutions have always been responsible lenders - putting our customers first is part of ...

Pitcher Partners promotes six

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... work in private business and family advisory; Jake Berger will be based in Sydney, Chris Hanna in Adelaide and Peter Lawrence in Newcastle. Cheryl Mason has been announced as a partner, audit and assurance in Brisbane while Keiran Wallis is a partner ...

Three advisers cop ASIC bans

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... previously worked at Commonwealth Financial Planning and Westpac. The ban runs until November 2024. Lastly, ASIC banned Lawrence Dean O'Neill for four years. He spent 10 years at NAB's Godfrey Prembroke until 2013 when he moved to Sentry Group's Wealthsure ...

Industry bodies react to APRA review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... supporting APRA for agreeing to actively focus more on competition in its decision-making processes. Chief executive Michael Lawrence said COBA's key recommendations, which included APRA better balancing competition with its other objectives, accommodating ...

Former JPMAM executive joins boutique advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... associate adviser Jessica Walker. With a background in accounting, Walker has previously worked for KPMG and Mudgee's Lawrence Bennett Portelli. "Having grown up in Mudgee, it is exciting to join a firm of the calibre of Profile Financial Services ...

COBA appoints former ASIC executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... environment continues to evolve in the wake of the financial services Royal Commission," COBA chief executive Michael Lawrence said. "The success of our model is demonstrated by our sector's consistently superior performance on measures of trust and ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... regulation wasn't sufficient to tackle issues stemming from AI. Baker McKenzie head of TMT for Asia Pacific Adrian Lawrence said this set of numbers as alarming. "Our clients in Australia are telling us that they are keen to avoid any legal risk ...