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Royal Commission: And that is a wrap

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
The public were provided a glimpse into the tireless work of the financial services Royal Commission as Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and counsel assisting Rowena Orr made closing remarks this afternoon. The final day's hearings adjourned at 1.15pm and ...

APRA not clear how to police BEAR breaches

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... implied the haste in cobbling together a BEAR breach strategy only came about because APRA was due to make a submission to round five of the Royal Commission. Hodge also produced notes shared by Byres with the APRA executive on August 28. Byres had jotted ...

HUB24 secures bespoke platform mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... platform providers, we selected HUB24 for their strong understanding of the private wealth and stockbroking sectors, and all-round superior platform capabilities," Patersons chief operating officer Jane Tandy said. "HUB24's subsidiary Agility Applications ...

Should banks fund customer litigation?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... not happy with it. And the board is not happy with it. And we do have to find a different mode of behaviour." In the fifth round of hearings, counsel assisting Michael Hodge suggested NAB's wealth arm complicated the plan service fee issue, and systematically ...

Apologies are over: Royal Commission looks to future

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
The final round of the financial services Royal Commission will ask chief executives at Australia's largest wealth management companies how to prevent this same misconduct ever happening again. Making her opening statement this morning, counsel ...

ETFs: Buy strategy not structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
The managing director at a Sydney-based global equities manager accepts the seismic and long-term shift of investor money to exchange-traded funds, but said one core element is often forgotten in this development. Antipodes Partners managing director ...

Labor responds to Royal Commission, sheds light on victims of misconduct

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
The Labor Party submitted a response to Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's interim report, documenting feedback to the Royal Commission through victims of bank misconduct, including claims banks go out of their way to avoid compensation settlements. In ...

Vamos joins embattled insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... Vamos is now a non-executive director on the board of Freedom Insurance Group, the insurer that was admonished in the sixth round of the Royal Commission for deliberately selling insurance products to vulnerable customers. Following shareholder confirmation ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
Nine Australian funds, including four superannuation funds, have ranked among the world's largest asset owners in a new study. The inaugural Asset Owner 100 study from Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute looked at the world's ...

More than half of advisers without association membership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
Latest research suggests more than half of the financial advisers in Australia are not affiliated with any industry association, despite the impending professional standards reform. Rainmaker analysis shows just 12,400 of Australia's financial advisers ...