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Charter Hall bleeds profits, appoints director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The property investment group's profits are down 44.7% despite a steady increase in funds under management (FUM), according to its half-year results. Statutory profit plummeted to $173.2 million from $313.2 million in the 12 months prior and EBITDA ...

Woodford flags comeback

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The UK's financial regulator is warning investors that disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is launching a new venture, WCM Partners. The Financial Conduct Authority was forced to act after Woodford announced that his new investment firm is in the ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg flagged that the temporary disclosure laws for public companies relaxed at the height of the coronavirus crisis will be made permanent. In May 2020, the government announced the temporary measures, modifying provisions under ...

Westpac prioritises risk management

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Westpac announced risk management and rebuilding its culture will be its top priorities for 2021. The bank paid $105 million to about 548,000 customers it has wronged during the first quarter ending December 2020, as announced in a trading update this ...

CBA guilty of deceptive conduct

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The Federal Court has found Commonwealth Bank of Australia made false or misleading statements and engaged in deceptive conduct on over 12,000 occasions. Justice Lee found that CBA breached financial services law 12,119 times when charging a rate of ...

ASIC to take targeted approach with PIP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
ASIC commissioner Sean Hughes said the government's Product Intervention Powers (PIP) will allow the regulator to take a targeted, calibrated and less prescriptive approach to regulation. Speaking at the Australian Finance Industry Association Risk ...

Netwealth boosts profit, FUA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The platform provider posted a 34.5% increase in statutory profit and a $4.5 billion rise in funds under administration in its half-year results. Netwealth's statutory profit reached $27.6 million and funds under administration grew to $38.8 billion ...

Citi names client director from within

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Citi Australia's wealth management business has appointed a banking vice president to the newly created role of client director. Kan Liu has spent over a decade at Citi specialising in fixed income and foreign exchange solutions for clients. He originally ...

SMSFs primed for best financial interests duty

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Self-managed superannuation funds are ahead of the game in terms of meeting the looming best financial interest rules, according to its peak body. SMSF Association deputy chief and director of policy and education Peter Burgess told the association's ...

Hostplus enhances ESG option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Hostplus is changing its sustainable investment option on the back of growing demand from members who want a more sustainable and principled approach to their investments. The Socially Responsible Investment Balanced option (SRI) now excludes a broader ...