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MLC, NULIS in court over $100m in illegitimate fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... in the financial services industry. Overall, remediation for impacted customers is expected to exceed $850m. Earlier this week, NAB announced NAB Financial Planning (FP) and NAB Direct Advice will no longer accept grandfathered commissions from NAB Wealth ...

Increasing trust not up to APRA: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... industry, not the prudential regulator. Speaking at the Annual Risk Management Association CRO conference in Sydney this week, APRA chairman Wayne Byres said the Royal Commission brought many well-known industry issues before the eyes of the public for ...

Industry fund adds new talent

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... strategic research. She has also held roles with Access Capital and the Australian Office of Financial Management. Earlier this week First State Super partnered with Lendlease to fund an investment vehicle that will build and develop multi-family housing ...

BetaShares wins insto allocation

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... more products than any other ETF manager in the year ending March - and more like the A200 have followed since then. This week the manager said it would launch three new tech ETFs that had been under works for 12 months. Vynokur said he expects the three ...

Equip grows to meet demand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
... in the corporate super market. The appointment of Yanni is the latest in a series of hires made by the fund recently. This week the fund welcomed Georgia Schofield as governance manager, in addition to Campbell Finlayson who was appointed risk specialist ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... prepared to do) to short circuit these shorting of emerging market currencies and equities at his Jackson Hole outing later this week. Just by pondering a temporary halt in "normalisation" proceedings, Jerome could hit two birds with one statement - ...

ASIC defends enforceable undertakings at Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... 24. He has also sought submissions on six areas - including from members of public, to an August 31 deadline. Earlier this week the Governance Institute said it believed confidence in Australia's financial institutions would continue to fall while ...

Royal Commission on social media: Regulators under scrutiny

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
As the Royal Commission superannuation hearings turned onto the final straight this week, commentators took to Twitter to have their say. Hardly a surprise given the #BankingRC > "...The banking, finance and insurance sector now has the lowest Ethics ...

Former Magellan executive appointed to Contango board

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... Contango's chief executive since October last year, took on the role of CGA chief executive on a permanent basis. Earlier this week, the asset manager announced it would hold an extraordinary general meeting on September 12, seeking shareholder approval ...

Female Excellence in Advice finalists announced

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... Financial Advisers National Conference nears, the finalists for its 2018 Female Excellence in Advice Award were named this week. More than 370 nominations and 44 applications were received for this year's award, a record number according to the AFA. ...