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Status quo not option for remuneration: APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
APRA chair Helen Rowell used her speech at an Australian Institute of Company Directors breakfast to push the ongoing need for accountability in financial services and said APRA plans to push ahead with its draft remuneration plan despite harsh criticism. ...

Short seller bites the dust

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
An activist short seller that accused an ASX-listed agricultural fund of running "scams" was dealt a blow in a Supreme Court judgment handed down yesterday. Texas-based Bonitas Research previously alleged Rural Funds Group (ASX: RFF) was overstating ...

Corrupt adviser banned, AFSL canned

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
ASIC has banned a Queensland-based financial adviser from providing financial services for seven years and cancelled the AFS licence of his business. The corporate regulator found that Timothy Shapter had not provided advice in his client's best interests ...

Westpac facing new class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
Westpac is facing a new class action over issues connected to the bank's monitoring of financial crime and the recent AUSTRAC scandal. Rosen Law, a US based international investor rights law firm, filed the class action on behalf of purchasers of ...

Meet the Sydney boutique beating Magellan's returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
A Sydney boutique started by a former Evans and Partners investor outperformed all its peers last year and it's not afraid of disclosing its stock picks. Aoris Investment Management was set up in 2017 by Stephen Arnold and runs just one fund, which ...

Green light for $1b Cbus tower

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
Cbus Property has received approval from the Victorian government for a new $1 billion office tower in Melbourne's CBD. The permit-approved development will be known as 435 Bourke Street and will comprise 59,000 square metres of office space across ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
New technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) are set to radically transform and disrupt markets and economies. That's according to the latest research from KPMG and the Australian National ...

The ingredients of a successful fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
New research from Zenith has found that fund managers with bigger investment teams and specialist coverage responsibilities tend to outperform their peers but opening multiple offices around the world will not give you a performance edge. Zenith compared ...

Super fund invests in disability housing

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
A Queensland-based super fund managing more than $12 billion in retirement savings is aiming to improve the lives of locals who need physical support housing. LGIAsuper has invested in The Mews Apartments, a residential development in Woolloongabba ...

FASEA responds to concerns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority today released a preliminary response to submissions from stakeholders on its much contested Code of Ethics, attempting to answer some of the many questions raised so far. FASEA consulted with stakeholders ...