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Schroders hires AMP operative

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2023
Schroders Australia has completed the reshuffle of its fixed income and multi-asset team with the hire of Pierre Wu as investment director. Reporting to Schroders head of product, solutions and client delivery Natalie Morcos, Wu will be responsible ...

InvestSense welcomes distribution lead

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2023
The investment management consultancy firm, which specialises in multi-asset managed accounts, has brought John Nicoll on as distribution executive. Nicoll brings over 22 years of experience in the financial services sector, having previously served ...

Trustees lack urgency, strategy on RIC: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
A joint regulatory review finds that superannuation funds are shrugging off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and are failing to integrate this mandate into their business plans. One year since the Retirement Income Covenant took ...

ASIC to host CHESS replacement roundtable

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
ASIC has agreed to host a roundtable to discuss the ASX's CHESS replacement project, attended by industry participants of the bourse's choosing. ASIC proposed the group be independently chaired and "advise on significant strategic clearing and ...

ACCC publishes draft guidance on greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... businesses that are taking genuine steps to adopt sustainable practices are put at a competitive disadvantage by businesses that engage in 'greenwashing' without incurring the same costs. "Our draft guidance sets out what the ACCC considers to be good ...

US regulators launch investigation into OpenAI

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research firm that owns ChatGBT, to evaluate possible negligence and consumer harm. In a 20-page document sent to the Microsoft-backed AI firm, regulators demanded ...

Leigh Watson caps four decades in industry

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
After 43 years working in the financial services industry, Leigh Watson feels it's time to step back from full-time work and spend more time with family and friends. Watson left Swiss Re on June 30 after nine years as the head of life & health reinsurance ...

CBA staff head to Fair Work over WFH policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
... matter. "We have asked the Fair Work Commission to intervene in this matter. Instead of issuing edicts, we want the bank to engage in a consultation process with the FSU and affected staff in accordance with the CBA Enterprise Agreement," FSU national ...

Federal Reserve plans upping capital requirements

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
The US Federal Reserve has proposed a regulatory overhaul in which the nation's largest banks would be forced to hold more capital in hopes future meltdowns in the sector can be prevented. Federal vice chair for supervision Michael Barr outlined ...

Young people 'locked out' of superannuation: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
Industry Super Australia (ISA) is calling for a "discriminatory legal relic" that denies Australian adolescents from receiving superannuation contributions to be overturned. ISA said about 375,000 young workers aren't entitled to compulsory super contributions ...