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TAL waives life premiums for drought-stricken farmers

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
Life insurer TAL will waive insurance premiums for drought-affected farmers in New South Wales and Queensland for a period of six months, it announced today. TAL retail customers who are eligible for the Federal government's farm household allowance ...

Industry fund recognised for data security expertise

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... largest custodians of land titles and registry services in Australia, following its 2017 joint acquisition of the New South Wales Land and Property Information (LPI) titling and registry services. The Victorian Government acknowledged this prior acquisition ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... helped put two men behind bars for laundering money and evading tax. Anthony Castagna and Robert Agius, both from New South Wales, were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment each. The pair used an offshore company, owned by Agius, to hold funds ...

Perpetual wins RE mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... Trust, which listed on the ASX on August 1, raising $185 million. Its portfolio consists of seven properties across New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia with a combined value of $238 million. Costa Group Holdings, a grower and packer of fruit ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... underwriting teams. Rachel Towell and Stuart White are the latest to join the life insurer as state managers for New South Wales and ACT, and Queensland respectively. Towell was in a similar role at AIA Australia as state manager of NSW and ACT prior ...

Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... are women, half of which are aged between 22 and 35 years of age. The majority of calls have been received from New South Wales, with Western Australia and Queensland close behind. Describing financial abuse as a hidden epidemic, CBA is committing about ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... ethics and interests of members has shifted from super fund trustees and directors to the regulators, University of New South Wales associate professor Anthony Asher says. Regulators should be making sure super funds are fulfilling their social purpose ...

FASEA clarifies foreign degrees mistake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... Qualifications Unit is tasked with assessing foreign qualifications. However, there is no OQU in operation in New South Wales - one of the two states home to the most financial advisers, the other being Victoria.

Adviser Ratings to predict licensees' quality of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... the way customers search for and track the ongoing status of financial advice providers," he said. University of New South Wales Business School professor of finance Jerry Parwada, who co-authored the white paper with Hoven, said: "At stake is the threat ...

NAB recruits customer executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... region in October 2018. She will be responsible for a team of business and private bankers across metropolitan New South Wales and Queensland. Faraci was previously general manager of regional and agribusiness banking at CBA. Prior to her time at CBA ...