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Hopes of RBA cut 'in tatters' after jobs data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024
... expectations of cooling. Jobs growth has exceeded expectations in seven of the last eight months, with the small fall in March (-4.58k) looking like an anomaly," Sycamore said. "The RBA's forecast for the unemployment rate is for it to rise to 4.3% by ...

TAL changes underwriting limits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024
TAL has introduced several changes to underwriting limits that reduces medical test requirements for new life, total and permanent disability (TPD), and income protection insurance applications. For life and TPD, customers aged 49 and younger can apply ...

Profile Financial Services chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
The chief executive of Profile Financial Services has resigned after nearly seven years with the firm. Lena Ridley was appointed to the role in 2021 to replace interim chief executive Peter Coleman, who assumed the post after the departure of Sarah ...

Investment Trends names sales lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
Investment Trends appointed a new head of sales for Australia who recently finished up at Bell Direct. Tim Sparks will lead Investment Trends' sales operations across Australia, having joined in September. He is the former head of distribution and ...

European private equity strategy launches down under

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
Global firms S64 Capital and HG Capital have joined forces to bring their flagship private equity offering to Australia. The firms are launching the Hg Fusion Private Capital Fund (HFPCF) to local investors as a feeder fund in the form of a unit trust. ...

ASIC bans adviser who misled TPB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
ASIC banned a financial adviser who was found to have lied to the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to remain registered and provided advice to clients despite being unable to manage his own tax affairs. John Hazell, formerly managing director of Richmond ...

Charges dropped against Macquarie adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
Charges against a former Macquarie financial adviser, including five counts of fraud, have been dropped. The Brisbane Magistrate's Court dismissed all 27 charges laid against Warren Scott Acworth on October 3 after the Commonwealth Director of Public ...

VFMC fills new head of asset classes role

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has tapped an internal candidate to step into the newly minted role of head of asset classes. Mark Aarons has been chosen to take on the role. Aarons joined VFMC in the role of head of investment risk in ...

ASIC crackdown: Action taken against 13 SMSF auditors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
During the first half of 2024, ASIC acted against the registration of 13 approved self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditors. ASIC's concerns covered a range of topics, including breaches of auditing and assurance standards, independence requirements ...

Australian Food Super picks TAL for group insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The $3 billion industry superannuation fund has transitioned its group insurance arrangements to TAL. It marks the end of a five-year mandate with AIA, which took over as the fund's group life insurer in September 2019 from MetLife. Effective September ...