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MFSIM execs use $143.5m in client money to repay debts

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... failed to demonstrate the ability, skills and knowledge to provide financial services. Commenting on the EU ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell said: "In instances where advice is provided to consumers to switch from existing superannuation products, especially ...

Platypus Asset Management announces CIO's departure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... business, acting in a business advisory and mentoring role. The changes will see Platypus co-found Nick Wright appointed as chairman and Rohan Mead as deputy chair. Platypus' chief operating officer, Gary Adamson, will assume the role of chief executive ...

Medcraft steps down from global leadership position

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
ASIC chair Greg Medcraf has announced he will step down from a global leadership position so as to "refresh" the organisation. Medcraft was chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) for the past three years. He declined ...

Investors looking to alternatives amid low cash rate

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... alternative, prime-grade consumer credit markets as an asset choice. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, co-founder and chairman of GCI, Steven Sher said that it was the asset class' stability that first attracted GCI to invest. "The thing that was ...

Competitive forces driving US pension fees down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... funds fell from 0.77% in 2000 to 0.54% in 2014, according to mutual fund industry trade group ICI. In March, Vanguard chairman and chief executive Bill McNabb told Financial Standard that US companies' fiduciary responsibility to employees led to them ...

Financial planners improve standing in annual trust survey

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... nurses at 92% (unchanged from 2015) have retained top spot for the 22nd survey in a row," Roy Morgan Research executive chairman Gary Morgan said. "The biggest losers in 2016 were ministers of religion 35% (down 4%) hitting a new record low and bank ...

ASIC makes two permanent bans

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
ASIC has permanently banned a former AFS licensee employee and former chairman of collapsed lender Wickham Securities and founder of Sherwin Financial Planners (in liquidation), from providing financial services. Former AFS licensee employee Nicolai ...

Financial services lend spotlight on nation's leading philanthropists

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... chief executive Lyn Gearing; technology venture capital investor and leading philanthropist, Daniel Petre; executive chairman of PwC's family, business and wealth practice in private clients, David Smorgon; and La Trobe Financial president and chief ...

HFA appoints CFO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... compliance, operations, risk and governance. He is currently a non-executive director of Millinium Capital Managers, chairman of the investment committee at Ignition Wealth, a non-executive director and member of the audit committee for Suncorp Portfolio ...

Financial Sector Advisory Council back in action

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... chief executive Mike Hirst; Victorian Funds Management Corporation chief executive Lisa Gray; and Ord Minnett executive chairman Karl Morris. Federal Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer said the renewed Financial Sector ...