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T.Rowe Price adds to APAC leadership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... several functions within the region including client account services, investment operations, enterprise risk, tax, and legal and compliance. T.Rowe Price head of distribution, APAC Nick Trueman said the growth in recent years has led to the firm adding ...

"Financial" in BFID is no big deal: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... of that," Donald said. "It does change the salience of that financial aspect. I think any trustee in the country asking a legal adviser, 'What does best interest mean' would be told instantly that it means best financial interest. "That is the way the ...

LIC seeks options for performance woes

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... $1.47 at the time of publishing. The LIC has engaged Deloitte as its financial and tax adviser and King & Wood Malleson as legal adviser. Both are assisting in the strategic structural review.

MCP builds out team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... our offering to investors and borrowers," Metrics managing partner Andrew Lockhart said. Felicity Cornforth also joined as legal counsel from Pepper Group. She previously held roles at Minter Ellison and DLA Piper. "Felicity brings addition weight and ...

Boutique hires fund services lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... purchase a property or infrastructure assets. Tran was also part of the Trust Company, working as an assistant manager and legal counsel before it was taken over by Perpetual. AMAL provides loan servicing, corporate trust and agency services. It has ...

ASIC okay with virtual AGMs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... companies an additional two months to hold their annual general meetings (AGMs). Last year on May 5, the g overnment made it legal for companies to switch their meetings (including AGMs) from physical locations to videoconferencing, to cater for pandemic ...

AFCA left toothless on Mayfair complaints

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... that it does point complainants to other relevant avenues of information or assistance - such as the relevant regulator, or legal aid, or Lifeline - when appropriate. ASIC succeeded in winding up Mayfair 101 debenture issuer M101 in January after provisional ...

Chester eyes ASIC chair role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... lawyers" to work through his employment issues out of his own pocket. O'Neill pressed Shipton on how much he paid for legal advice to fight for his job, given that ordinary Australians do not have the same privilege. He declined to answer, saying ...

Super funds to answer to new APRA enforcer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... superannuation sector. Announcing the appointment, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said Cole has extensive experience in regulatory and legal fields across both the private and public sectors. She has worked as managing director of enforcement and financial ...

Low pass rate for latest FASEA exam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... FASEA revealed that analysis of the exam results showed that advisers underperformed in financial advice regulatory and legal obligations questions - particularly in relation to documentation, the Corporations Act and differentiating personal and general ...