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Industry super fund adds director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
A $2.6 billion industry superannuation fund appointed a former corporate super investment officer to its board. Following the departure of long-serving director Andrew Cooke, AvSuper has welcomed former Actuaries Institute president Geoff Burgess as ...

Nikko insto sales lead joins $53bn manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
A $53 billion global asset manager will welcome Nikko Asset Management's head of Australian distribution to lead its new local office. Eddy Schipper will join Epoch Investment Partners as managing director, in a newly created role encompassing client ...

ANZ scraps individual bonuses

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
ANZ has taken individual bonuses off the table in favour of an incentive based on group performance. From October 1 most ANZ staff will be rewarded with a group performance dividend based on the bank's performance across four perspectives: risk, financial ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
BlackRock partnered with a $23 billion superannuation fund to develop an ESG-focused global bond index fund. VicSuper has again partnered with the global fund manager, this time to develop a global bond index fund similar to the ESG Australian Bond ...

Planning foundation adds directors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
The philanthropic foundation of the Financial Planning Association of Australia appointed an additional three directors to its board. Future2 is welcoming the appointments of former FPA chair Julie Berry, acting Commonwealth Bank executive general manager ...

Document leak puts NAB under the pump

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
An internal whistleblower has pushed NAB back into the spotlight, leaking documents revealing the extent of the embattled bank's risk management difficulties. As reported by The Sydney Morning Herald, minutes from a June 2018 meeting between NAB ...

Mercer slams Grattan Institute

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
The ongoing battle between Mercer and the Grattan Institute over superannuation rolls on, with the global financial services firm dedicating an entire report to pulling apart Grattan's "misleading" work. Releasing the report, authored by senior ...

ASIC reveals advice remediation progress

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
A 2017 report by ASIC into how the big banks and AMP oversee financial advisers has netted less than $120 million in remediation to date. AMP, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac have paid a total of $119.7 million [see figure 1] in remediation ...

Industry not impressed with APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
The latest stakeholder survey shows the Royal Commission continues to hurt the regulator's standing in the financial services community. APRA's latest biennial stakeholder survey shows industry players are less impressed with the prudential ...

FASEA exam results expected soon

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
Exam marks for the first cohort of financial advisers to sit the FASEA exam are set to be released in the coming weeks. The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority revealed it will release the results of June's inaugural FASEA exam by midway ...