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Former Financial Circle director charged

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Former Financial Circle director Joshua Fuoco has been charged with managing a corporation whilst disqualified. Melbourne-based Fuoco was charged with four offences following an ASIC investigation. He was charged with three counts of managing a corporation ...

Cashwerkz director departs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Cashwerkz has announced the retirement of a long-serving non-executive director. Nathan Leman had been on the board since 2010 and took responsibility for the design and implementation of the corporate infrastructure including IT projects. Throughout ...

Advice firms need technology to survive: FPA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
The use of technology will be crucial to the sustainability of advice firms, new research shows. The Financial Planning Association's (FPA) recent survey undertaken by CoreData found that just over half of financial advisers surveyed (50.7%) believe ...

Insto demand sees digital asset manager launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
A newly launched UK asset management firm is catering to institutional investors' increasing interest in digital assets, piquing the curiosity of Australian high-net-worths. London-based ByteTree Asset Management launched this week with a mission to ...

Mercer launches climate-transition tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Mercer has launched an analytics tool that helps institutional investors assess which companies are committed to combating climate change and want to adapt to a net-zero economy. Analytics for Climate Transition (ACT) assesses companies' commitment ...

Raiz appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Raiz Invest has announced the appointment of a new chair with a background in digital marketing focusing on growth companies. Kevin Moore is set to take the position of chair and non-executive director. He is a digital market specialist with a long ...

Chief economist update: We're not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
"Curb your enthusiasm" was the overriding message from the world's top three central bankers at the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking 2020, held online on November 11-12. The head honchos of the US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and the ...

APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
A new draft of APRA's remuneration guidelines has scrapped its original plan to cap financial measures' contribution to executives' variable remuneration at 50%. Instead the boards will be able to assign a "material weight" to how much of ...

AIST pokes holes in Your Super, Your Choice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has criticised the government's Your Super, Your Choice reforms, saying they fail to protect existing members in underperforming funds. Outlining its view of the reforms, AIST pointed out the need ...

Asset managers want action on modern-day slavery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Asset management heavyweights are urging the nation's top 100 companies to take modern-day slavery and labour exploitation seriously by lifting the hood on their supply chains. The Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking (IAST) APAC, a newly-formed ...