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Former AFA president Dugald Mitchell remembered

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2023
Dugald Mitchell, a former president of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), passed away on August 18 at the age of 89. Mitchell was an active member and leader of the AFA, playing key roles as a member of the National Education Committee and ...

More pension funds, insurers impacted by MOVEit mass-hack

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... party access to members' data. Similar to CalPERS, CalSTRS uses PBI to ensure payments are not sent after a member has passed away. PBI also locates missing pension plan participants and missing beneficiaries and relatives. It is used by thousands of ...

Farewell Michael Harrison

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... sector, Michael Harrison is being remembered as a teacher, mentor, and unrelenting advocate for risk advisers after he passed away on Sunday morning, aged 78. Harrison enjoyed a varied and colourful career. He established Australia's first private ...

Former adviser jailed for nine years

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
... rent. She was issued an eviction order. The police and her local MP assisted her to stay in her house. Sadly, she passed away from breast cancer in October 2021," the proceeding heard. Fineff used most of the funds to bet on horses. He was a customer ...

Packhorse lists cattle stations for sale

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... equal opportunity to purchase these assets," Auty said. Expressions of interest are invited by December 15. Strachan passed away in August in a light plane crash. The accident also killed Strachan's son Noah, and pilot Garry Liehm.

Former fund manager, philanthropist Brian Sherman passes away

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022
Brian Sherman has passed away at age 79 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. South-African born Sherman was chair and joint managing director of investment house EquitiLink Group. In his memoir, Lives of Brian, he recounted how he came to Australia ...

Stock exchanges, industry pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2022
... organisations have also marked her passing overnight. The Royal Family announced early this morning that The Queen passed away peacefully at her Balmoral residence. She was Britain's longest-reigning monarch, having served the public since 1952. ...

Casey Thompson joins First Super board

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... the granddaughter of Tom McDonald, a key architect of industry superannuation and a founder of Cbus Super." McDonald passed away earlier this year, aged 95. At the time, Cbus said he "leaves a legacy of nation changing economic reform", saying his leadership ...

Remembering Steve Williams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022
ClearBridge Investments has led tributes to its head of intermediary sales Steve Williams, who passed away last week following a short illness. Williams - affectionately known as Willo - passed away last Thursday, ClearBridge confirmed in a LinkedIn ...

Spirit Super pays tribute to Doug Fry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
One of Spirit Super's founding directors and its longest serving chair, Doug Fry, passed away last week. The fund paid tribute to Fry, who was a key player in the establishment of Tasplan. He was a founding director and served as chair of Tasplan for ...