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Court shuts down listed investment manager lawsuit

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
The Supreme Court of Victoria has dismissed an application from a listed investment manager who was attempting to restraint Molopo Energy from acquiring further shares in a Florida oil and gas exploration company. Keybridge Capital had commenced proceedings ...

RNY unitholders left unpaid after Aurora scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
Many unitholders in the RNY Property Trust have yet to be compensated following the takeover by Aurora Funds Management, whose chief financial officer was terminated after $1 million vanished from a listed Aurora trust last weekend, and ASIC has so ...

Treasury rolls out ASIC industry funding fee paper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
The Treasury has released its consultation paper for the specific costs ASIC aims to recover from entities the regulator supervises. These costs will include fees for document compliance reviews, licence applications or variations, applications for ...

CBA avoids board spill

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... to the AUSTRAC allegations that will be made public by December 15. The bank is in the process of responding to ASIC's request for information for its own investigation, and will "vigorously" defend a class action that alleges it breached continuous ...

Westpac to welcome new chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... practices. It is also refunding customers that were entitled to product discounts but were unaware they needed to specifically request the discount.

Aussie regtech readies firms for MiFID II

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
An Australian regtech has partnered with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to help local financial services firms address compliance in time for the looming MiFID II deadline. APIR Systems will be the LSE's registered agent in Australia and South East ...

Westpac Group results solid despite challenges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... practices. It is also refunding customers that were entitled to product discounts but were unaware they needed to specifically request the discount. "Despite these challenges, our business is in excellent shape: customer satisfaction has risen, employee ...

More clarity needed on NAB redundancies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
The Financial Sector Union of Australia is concerned with NAB's lack of detail provided around plans to cut almost 20% of its staff by 2020. The FSU responded to the news of planned job cuts by demanding urgent talks with NAB chief executive Andrew ...

Melbourne boutique shutters under passive pressure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
The rise of passive investment and superannuation fund internalisation has led to a Melbourne-based Australian equities boutique terminating its only fund. In a letter to unitholders, Concise Asset Management said it has reluctantly decided to wind ...

BTFG widens life insurance APL

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... Life is the only insurer on the BT Financial Advisers APL, although BTFG noted that over the past four years any adviser request to use an insurance product not on the APL has been approved. As above, it is expected the APL will have a minimum of three ...