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UBS Australia could be banned from Papua New Guinea

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
... tens of millions as a Royal Commission uncovers questionable conduct. A Royal Commission will shortly deliver its verdict in PNG after examining a 2014 decision by the PNG government to obtain an offshore loan from UBS Australia of US$1.3 billion. The ...

PNG regulator denies Westpac Pacific sale

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... its Pacific business to Kina Securities. Kina Securities was set to pay $420 million for Westpac Fiji and 89.91% of Westpac PNG Limited which combined have net assets of $480 million, net loans of $1.57 billion and deposits of $2.34 billion. The transaction ...

Former Christian Super deputy CIO in new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
The former deputy chief investment of Christian Super has joined the Cook Islands National Superannuation Fund, as it starts an internal investment team. David Brown commenced as the chief investment officer of the fund this week. The Cook Islands National ...

PNG super fund to evict settlers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Papua New Guinea's largest superannuation fund claimed victory over a small community which had settled on land owned by the fund more than two decades ago. Bushwara, a community outside of Port Moresby, was issued eviction notices by Nambawan Super ...

Westpac sells Pacific to PNG bank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... operations in Papua New Guinea to Kina Securities. Kina Securities will pay $420 million for Westpac Fiji and 89.91% of Westpac PNG Limited which combined have net assets of $480 million, net loans of $1.57 billion and deposits of $2.34 billion. The ...

Nambawan Super board member resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... Lesieli Taviri joined the super fund as a trustee director in 2014. She is the former chief executive of Origin Energy in PNG and the current chair of the country's Business Coalition for Women. Reg Monagi, who was appointed chair in July, said Taviri ...

Perth Mint to review audit processes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... sources gold. The Western-Australian government owned Perth Mint allegedly buys up to $200 million of conflict gold from a PNG firm Golden Valley which is owned by a man convicted of killing, and uses mercury and child labour in its production of gold ...

Super fund appoints deputy investments chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... equity at Victoria Funds Management. He is currently a non-executive director at ASX-listed ClearView Wealth. In 2018, the PNG police charged laid charges against Brown for conspiring to defraud, after he made enquiries about one of the vehicles that ...

ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... David Brown by Papua New Guinea police in August were dismissed in court on Friday. Brown is the chief investment officer for PNG's National Superannuation Fund (NASFUND). On 30 July 2018, Brown was arrested and charged by the National Fraud & Anti-Corruption ...

XPLAN picks up Lumen integration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
IRESS integrated its recently acquired data analytics solution with financial planning software XPLAN. IRESS has made it easier for licensees to identify actual and potential scenarios where advice standards are not being complied with by integrating ...
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