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Zenith introduces shareholder voting advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
Zenith will start providing formal recommendations to help financial advisers and their clients vote on important shareholder matters. Zenith said the market has reached a tipping point where advisers are increasingly being asked by clients which way ...

Open APIs old news: Midwinter

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
Fintechs not supporting open APIs won't be around in five years' time, according to a Midwinter executive. Midwinter chief technology officer and executive director Andrew McClelland believes open application programming interfaces (APIs) are now a ...

Unlicensed financial adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
ASIC has permanently banned an unlicensed financial adviser found guilty of aiding and abetting a financial services firm that was also unlicensed. Following more than six years of work by the regulator, former Investment Intelligence Corporation director ...

ASIC takes Dover, McMaster to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
ASIC is taking Federal Court action against Dover Financial Advisers and Terry McMaster for allegedly misleading and deceiving clients. The corporate regulator commenced civil penalty action against the disgraced dealer group and its founder on September ...

Investa Office Fund's Canadian bidder ups the stakes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
A Canadian real estate group has topped private equity juggernaut Blackstone's bid for the Investa Office Fund. Oxford Properties Group offered to pay $5.60 per share in cash to acquire 100% of IOF, according to company filings on Friday. This is 10 ...

ASIC commences civil action against ANZ

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings against ANZ for its involvement in an alleged criminal cartel relating to a $2.5 billion institutional share placement in August 2015. ASIC alleged ANZ failed to notify the ASX that $791 million of the $2.5 ...

Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
Operating and investing in Australia for more than a decade, a contrarian asset manager is introducing superannuation and retirement investment solutions to the local market. White-labelling the OneVue wholesale platform, Allan Gray Australia is offering ...

University students to run hedge fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
An industry-backed hedge fund has launched at the University of New South Wales, where students will run a concentrated long-short portfolio of ASX 300 stocks with ESG filters. Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) general manager Michael ...

Macquarie pledges $50m to anniversary

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
Macquarie Group is making a $50 million philanthropic commitment to mark its 50th anniversary in 2019. The Australian financial services giant said the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award would initiate or build on bold ideas to address social need. The ...

Hagger to depart NAB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
National Australia Bank has announced Andrew Hagger will leave the bank at the end of the month and will be replaced by Mike Baird. As part of a raft of changes to the institution's executive leadership team, Hagger - as chief customer officer of consumer ...