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Should unused services on AFSLs be subject to ASIC levy?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
An AFSL holder asked the court to review its entreaty to ASIC to waive industry funding levy for services that it was licensed to offer but did not. Polymath Investors acquired an Australian Financial Services Licence in 2010 to work with wholesale ...

MLC Life executive joins AFCA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
A member of MLC Life's leadership team has been appointed lead ombudsman for investments and advice at AFCA. A former industry super fund has also joined the body as lead ombudsman for superannuation. MLC Life Insurance chief of customer operation Natalie ...

QSuper board takes AFCA decision to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... premise had been established, the appeal would otherwise fail." "During the appeal QSuper sought to raise an additional ground which was factually inconsistent with the first two grounds, namely that if AFCA did not in fact consider CA s1017B(4), it ...

Vale Ted Evans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... policy in Australia. "Ted Evans believed in policy innovation and was always brave in breaking formerly forbidden policy ground," Keating said. "Ted was always restrained but invested with fierce beliefs which he held in a vice like grip. Belief and ...

Not safe to launch: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... launched during the COVID-19 crisis, noting even those which take-off under normal circumstances often don't get off the ground. With the regulator concerned new entrants won't survive the winter, it said the issuance of new licences would be ...

Bravura secures new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... efficiencies and enhance service delivery," Bravura said. "The Garradin implementation has enabled Futurity to launch a ground-breaking discretionary family education bond that provides bond owners with the ability to easily track their contributions ...

Chant West sale hits roadblock

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
Zenith Investment Partners wants to reverse out of its planned $12 million purchase of Chant West's superannuation business, saying the latter has been materially affected since February, but Chant West is digging its heels in. On February 18, Chant ...

Will COVID-19 infect mortgages and RMBS?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
The current market corrections caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdowns have sparked warnings from some not to forget the lessons of 2008 - especially, don't underestimate mortgage defaults. Thomas J. Barrack, a US private equity ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
In rough times it can seem beneficial to look back at past experiences and think 'If I got through that, I can get through this', but if you ask the fund managers and traders of the world, the consensus is this time does not compare to 1987 ...

Positives from the pandemic for advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... years is coming in an end," Johnson said. "It appears the pendulum is starting to swing back to some badly needed middle ground and that light at the end of the tunnel is intensifying." The letter wasn't all positive though. "Unfortunately it is too ...