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State Street loses Fearless Girl replica claim

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
HESTA and Cbus have settled claims brought against them by State Street over the Fearless Girl statue, while Maurice Blackburn scored a win in court last week. State Street Global Advisors Trust Company and its local subsidiary State Street Global Advisors ...

Channel starts US business, taps Mellon chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
The Sydney multi-boutique is partnering with the former chief executive of the US$613 billion Mellon Investments to start a new funds management incubator based in New York. The new business will be called Eolas Capital and partner with either US fund ...

Industry fund reviews DB payments

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
A $10 billion industry fund is reviewing salary and superannuation benefit payments within its defined benefit fund that were potentially paid incorrectly. Statewide Super's Salarylink, a defined benefit fund for local government workers, is investigating ...

ASIC drags CommSec to court

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
ASIC has commenced civil proceedings against CommSec and AUSIEX in the Federal Court. CommSec overcharged brokerage fees to customers on 120,933 occasions totalling $4,352,194 between August 2010 and February 2020, ASIC alleges and CommSec has admitted. ...

NEOS shakes up leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
NEOS Life has made several senior appointments, including new leads for its actuary, claims and implementation departments. Kirshan Reddy joined as chief actuary in February after working at MLC Life Insurance as the head of profitability and performance ...

CPP Investments chief steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
The chief executive of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has exited the top job amid reports he left the country to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. CPP Investments announced that Mark Machin resigned shortly after he "decided ...

Remains of Melissa Caddick found

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
A foot in a shoe has been identified as belonging to missing woman Melissa Caddick, the woman who claimed to be a financial adviser and is the subject of an ongoing ASIC investigation. The human remains were discovered on a beach on the NSW South Coast ...

ASIC takes NAB to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
The corporate regulator has taken NAB to the Federal Court, alleging the bank wrongly charged customers fees for at least 12 years. The regulator yesterday filed initial documents with the Federal Court's Queensland registry, seeking orders that NAB ...

ATO begins stimulus fraud convictions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has started cracking down on those who fraudulently accessed government stimulus measures in relation to COVID-19 with the first conviction. Raed Saleh was convicted in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court of three counts ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
Even before the coronavirus vaccine was injected before Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's arm a day before the national roll-out on the 22nd of February this year, this 'Land Down Under' has already been returning to pre-covid normality. ...