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HCF Life under ASIC surveillance

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... insurance, and a reasonable person "in the circumstances could not be expected to have been aware of the condition." ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court added insurers need to ensure that all terms in their contracts, including important pre-existing condition ...

Qantas Super appoints deputy investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... Qantas Super - the Mascot-based fund for employees of Australia's national air carrier - has promoted Chris Grogan to deputy chief investment officer and head of defensive assets. Grogan has been with Qantas Super since July 2012 and was most recently ...

NALI measure receives mixed response

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023
... NALI changes were an overreach, he added. As for APRA-regulated funds, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia deputy chief executive Glen McCrea said: "The practical effect of the NALI amendment is that large APRA-regulated superannuation funds ...

AFCA appoints lead ombudsman, investments and advice

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... financial planner before becoming a case manager with an AFCA predecessor, the Financial Ombudsman Scheme, in 2010. AFCA deputy chief ombudsman June Smith said Singh brings deep and diverse experience to this role, having worked in dispute resolution ...

Courtenay House affiliate faces prison

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... undermined public confidence in the regulatory regime of the financial services industry. Commenting on the matter, ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said: "ASIC has taken civil action to freeze assets, assisted liquidators and is now seeing justice for ...

ASIC revises IDR reporting framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
... IDR data to ASIC... Importantly those firms account for the large majority of consumer complaints made through IDR," ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester said. "The staged implementation will also allow more time for many smaller firms to prepare for the ...

abrdn chief economist rejoins Reserve Bank

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
... rejoined Australia's central bank after working as abrdn's chief economist for 10 years. Lawson has been appointed deputy head of the international department at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), effective August 1. He began his career at ...

BlackRock to list low-cost property and infrastructure ETFs

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
... Index, while GLPR will be benchmarked to the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Ex Australia Rental AUD Hedged Index. BlackRock deputy head and head of iShares Australia Jason Collins said the launch underscores the group's commitment to deliver advisers ...

Issuers must lift DDO game: ASIC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
... It is disappointing to see DDO deficiencies across the board, and by large and small product issuers alike," said ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester. "Poor product design or distribution puts retail investors at risk of financial harm, ending up in products ...

Finfluencer receives jail sentence

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
... had an undisclosed interest in, and which he had manipulated, with a view to selling out at a higher price," said ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said. During ASIC's search of the finfluencer's premises in 2015, a notepad was found which detailed ...