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Heartland finally gets regulatory approval for Challenger Bank acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... financial services, including as chief executive of the Bank of Melbourne and having held senior roles at Bankwest, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac.

Taskforce suggests aged care funding be based on personal wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... services... For non-pensioners, there may be an opportunity for additional differential means testing arrangements based on Commonwealth Seniors Health Card status." In making these recommendations, the taskforce rejected the concept of a specific tax ...

DASS settlement pending court approval, victims urged to claim

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... lapse. Any Dixon Advisory clients who have not brought a claim by that point may not be able to participate in the Commonwealth Government-operated CSLR. "The CSLR is designed to pay out compensation awarded by AFCA where the financial firm in question ...

Aware Super restructures executive team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024
... members' diverse needs. Before joining HESTA, Collins held customer-facing and operations executive positions at AXA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and National Australia Bank. She also served as the chief operating officer of Victorian Funds Management ...

Interest rates drive adviser conversations in 2024

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... clients. Economists remain divided on which direction interest rates will take in 2024 or if they will move at all. Commonwealth Bank predicts the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will drop the base rate by 0.75% from September in the hope inflation returns ...

Albanese set to overhaul Stage 3 tax cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... government to retain the 37% tax bracket and redirect the $8 billion a year saved to build 100,000 homes and expand Commonwealth Rental Assistance to help those most in need keep a roof over their heads," she said. Albanese is due to present the proposed ...

Former adviser misled ASIC during investigation: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... section 64(1) of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth). ASIC referred the matter to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. If found guilty, he could face up to five years' imprisonment. Ridgway was released ...

Caddick SMSF clients should recoup all funds: Lawyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... of them." Many of Caddick's clients, which included non-SMSF clients, were given fake CommSec statements with Commonwealth Bank logos showing the shares she claimed to have invested in on their behalf. "Those documents have been shown by the receivers ...

MLC Life names general manager, remediation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
MLC Life has hired the man who led Commonwealth Bank's recent $1 billion remediation program to the role of general manager, remediation programs. Ian Fletcher, currently general manager of program strategy, customer remediation at Commonwealth Bank ...

Australian Unity sells advice arm to Fortnum, Nestworth

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023
... debt capital markets that will meet our future needs." The joint lead managers of the A$MTN issuance were ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Mizuho Securities.
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