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Praemium hires governance, risk chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023
... later this month as chief governance and risk officer. She will oversee risk management, compliance, company secretarial, legal, outsourcing and supplier management. Axton was most recently interim chief risk officer at Bank First. Prior, she spent close ...

Sequoia expands professional services arm

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023
The listed wealth group will acquire and merge the businesses of Castle Corporate and Castle Legal for $3.15 million. Castle Corporate assists accountants, financial advisers, and lawyers with the formation of companies, trusts, and self-managed super ...

Young people 'locked out' of superannuation: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
Industry Super Australia (ISA) is calling for a "discriminatory legal relic" that denies Australian adolescents from receiving superannuation contributions to be overturned. ISA said about 375,000 young workers aren't entitled to compulsory super contributions ...

AZ NGA welcomes head of M&A

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2023
... for about eight years, exiting the board upon the fund's merger with Cbus. Meanwhile, Symes will head up AZ NGA's legal, risk and corporate governance function, reporting to Barrett. He previously spent two years at Yellow Brick Road as its general ...

ASX consultation: Time to say goodbye to mFund?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... ownership, and funds would be gradually removed from the service. The third and final stages would involve the completion of legal and operational work to permanently close the mFund service, a process expected to take an additional one to three months. ...

AMP loses BOLR changes class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... the time. "For many of them, it's been both physically and emotionally exhausting. Unfortunately, the reality is any legal action takes time and that's problematic for small business owners." In 2021, ASIC and the Commonwealth Director of Public ...

Allegro unveils PwC entity as Scyne Advisory

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... are undertaking to hold to account the PwC Australia leadership team, including former chief executive Luke Sayers and the legal counsel from 2015, who devised the strategy of the abuse of legal professional privilege to subvert the proper enquiry by ...

Rising costs bite asset owners

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
... Investors' Costs and Fees report compiled by bfinance found that routine fund servicing costs in the form of custody, audits, and legal advice are becoming more costly as they find it harder to pass such expenses on to clients. About 200 global asset ...

Adviser levy tripled, labelled "deeply unfair"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023
... policy advice, and more than $23 million in indirect costs pertaining to IT support, property, and corporate services, and legal. In terms of the work ASIC said it is looking to recover costs on, the strategic work undertaken this financial year in the ...

ASIC nudges trustees on member fund compliance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
ASIC is appealing for superannuation trustees to adhere to their legal responsibilities concerning member funds following a review of 12 trustees. A recent review by ASIC revealed that most aren't meeting their legal responsibilities for managing incoming ...