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Does financial services have a problem with women?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... the office." In September 2020, Escobar advised IOOF she was pregnant and planned to take six months maternity leave. In October 2020, she was made redundant and told she could apply for a newly created position but that she would be competing with another ...

Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... management. The FUM for Lonsec's listed investment solutions division increased from $431 million to $1.3 billion between October 13 acquisition and December end. The 51% increase was "significantly higher than forecast", GDG said in ASX filings. ...

Ares readies second credit fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... investing through market cycles," said Ares SSG ANZ chair John Knox. Los Angeles's Ares Management Corporation last October set up a joint venture with Challenger's Fidante Partners. Separately, Ares this month bid $1.85 per share (indicative) ...

Westpac settles two class actions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... Rosen Law Firm relating to its failure to monitor financial crime and anti-money laundering under the eyes of AUSTRAC on October 29. The law firm filed the class action in January this year at the US District Court for Oregon on behalf of investors who ...

ANZ flags earnings hit

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... for payroll remediation and $94 million for impairment of property assets. ANZ will announce its full year results on October 29, Westpac on November 2 and NAB on November 5.

Big banks face shareholder action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... give investors an important opportunity to set their expectations as ANZ will announce a new fossil fuel policy in late October, while NAB intends to review its oil and gas policy. While just Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have disclosed Paris-aligned ...

Banks to assess loan deferrals

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... according to the Australian Banking Association (ABA). Around 450,000 loan deferral customers will be assessed in September or October as they come to the end of a six-month deferral. Of these loans 105,000 are small and medium business loans while there ...

ASIC appeal upheld

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... services in June 2017, however, the AAT set aside this decision in September 2018. ASIC subsequently filed an appeal in October 2019, with the hearing held in June this year. Hutchison was an authorised representative for RI Advice, a licensee formerly ...

ASIC turns up the heat on enforcement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... staff spending 216 days and conducting 739 meetings with banking staff at all levels of the major banks and AMP between October 2018 and December 2019. ASIC emphasised that some, but not all of its recent work had been focused on responding to referrals ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... there's risk of weakening activity ahead. Then again, as present RBA head Philip Lowe stated after its third rate cut in October last year: "At low interest rates, many investments that didn't make sense at higher interest rates should now make ...