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ASIC chair defends Chairman's Lounge memberships

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... and whether they believe it's appropriate to maintain them. Appearing before the Economics Legislation Committee today, chair Joe Longo - who appeared alongside deputy chair Sarah Court, commissioners Alan Kirkland and Simone Constant and others - was ...

Former Frontier alts head joins Evergreen

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
A former Frontier Advisors executive has landed at a rival asset consultant following a career break. After departing Frontier as head of alternatives, Michiel Swaak has joined Evergreen Consultants as a principal consultant. In the new role, he is ...

Australian Retirement Trust works to resolve ongoing outages

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... an outage for close to a fortnight on the back of its private Google cloud being inadvertently deleted. In August, APRA chair John Lonsdale flagged the regulator is stepping up its oversight of operational and cyber-resilience, including at super funds ...

ACCC urges parliament to pass new merger laws

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has told the Gilbert and Tobin Financial Services Forum that the ACCC has been advocating for reforms to merger control in Australia for years and urged the government to pass the reforms. "These reforms are particularly ...

ANZ suspected of more mistakes amid bond saga

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... investigation, commenced April last year, is currently ongoing. Appearing before the Parliamentary Joint Committee last Friday, ASIC chair Joe Longo said: "Our investigation concerns suspected market manipulation and contraventions of a number of provisions ...

GROW Inc. chief executive steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... down as chief executive of the budding administrator. Keeley informed staff of his decision this week, appointing executive chair Rob Johnston as acting chief executive. Brad Cooper has been named chair of the GROW Inc. board. The administrator is actively ...

Industry fund merger finalised; seven board exits confirmed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... banner of CareSuper, will, as previously revealed, be led by former Spirit Super chief executive Jason Murray. CareSuper chair Linda Scott, meanwhile, will stay on as chair of the merged super fund, which has 550,000 members. John Mazengarb has been ...

Non-bank lender sued for dodging Credit Code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
... their own homes as security, ASIC said - when they defaulted on the loans, Oak Capital repossessed their homes. ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said: "As a result of loans being treated as unregulated, we allege Oak Capital deprived its clients of important ...

Cole puts funds on notice as expenditure data is revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... to the Mining and Energy Union withdrawing from what's now the CFMEU in December 2023. The data comes as APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole said the regulator would be looking more closely at super funds' spending. "The scale of expenditure in a ...

SMSF Association announces board director changes

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... the board. The trio bring over half a century of self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) experience collectively. SMSFA chair Scott Hay-Bartlem said: "Brett, Meg and Lachlan each bring unique perspectives from their many years in the industry, making ...