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Advice group convicted of hawking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
National Advice Solutions was convicted in a Queensland court for cold-calling consumers and trying to convince them to switch their super fund, copping a $70,000 fine. National Advice Solutions' AFSL was cancelled in December and its two responsible ...

Cold calling advice firms called out

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is calling on the government to extend anti-hawking laws to combat financial advice firms using third parties to solicit business through cold calling. Unsolicited calls to consumers about superannuation ...

APRA hones in on post-retirement products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
APRA is adamant that retirement income products will not suffer the same fate as income protection insurance as it looks to tighten its belt in regulating the post-retirement phase. The prudential regulator's deputy chair Helen Rowell spoke of the ...

Crypto platform hires former Spaceship growth lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
An Australian cryptocurrency micro-investment platform has bolstered its team, hiring from Spaceship. Bamboo appointed Anna Cheng, former AP growth at Spaceship, to join its team in an advisory capacity. Cheng was Spaceship's third employee, joining ...

Chief economist update: East and west at crossroads

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... something, it just makes it worse." Or as Bruce Lee said: "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Kokoda revisited: The AFA journey

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... "it was a bloody hard seven days." "Rain, heat, humidity, clay, climbing up and down a cumulative 10,000 feet; log and bamboo bridges and water crossings, poor sleep, aches and pains...but I had 20 fellow-trekkers that are now 20 mates. The pillars at ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... Bernanke [Ben, chair of the US Federal Reserve] talked about the green shoots of recovery, he should have talked about bamboo shoots...even a slowing China is a fast story for Australia," said Harcourt. Harcourt who is also the J.W Nevile economics fellow ...
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