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CFS Investments chair to retire

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The chair of Commonwealth Bank's Colonial First State Investments and Avanteos Investments will retire at the end of year. Anne Ward will finish up her eight-year term as non-executive director and chair at the end of December 2020. The group is ...

Public servants caught in SG bungle

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
A government agency has botched superannuation benefit payments spanning a decade, affecting more than 56,000 employees who are owed tens and millions of dollars. The Northern Territory government owes about $39.5 million in superannuation contributions ...

ASIC's Chester spills Crennan truth

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester brought to light discrepancies in Daniel Crennan's resignation statement in front of a senate hearing, clarifying the dates that he found out about the issues that led to his resignation. Former deputy chair Crennan said ...

Federal Court freezes investment scam, winds up SMSF operator

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
The Federal Court has frozen the funds of a suspected investment scammer and ordered the winding up of two unlicensed financial services businesses, upon referral from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The Federal Court has ...

ClearView adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
The diversified financial services business has made a raft of changes to its leadership team, including a fresh life insurance lead and new general manager of wealth management. ClearView has today announced a series of key management changes as part ...

Chief economist update: A V, a W and an L

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The latest results from the monthly Markit Economics PMI (purchasing managers' index) draws a picture of the three shapes of the economic recovery or otherwise. The letter V. Masked or unmasked, the IHS/Markit flash US composite PMI continues to ...

Societe Generale fined over client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
The French bank's Sydney operation has become the second company in Australia in as many months to be criminally prosecuted over breaching client money obligations. Societe Generale pleaded guilty to four counts of client money obligation breaches in ...

QSuper head of advice exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
The head of QSuper's advice unit has departed after the superannuation fund restructured its financial-advice offering to members. Kim Hughes, who was appointed as the $110 billion superannuation fund's chief of advice for QInvest in February 2019 ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
China's cruel to be kind policy continues to pay dividends. Criticised and condemned they may be, but the swift and continued improvement in the economy prove that the Politburo's draconian restriction and lockdown measures implemented at the ...

Acting AMP Australia chief joins FSC board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has announced the acting chief executive of AMP Australia, Blair Vernon will join the FSC board as a director. FSC said Vernon is an experienced financial services executive with significant capability across a range ...