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Class action accuses NAB of super rip-off

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers today filed a class action on behalf of more than 330,000 National Australia Bank superannuation customers. The action relates to MasterKey Business Super and Personal Super account holders and accuses NAB of breaching its ...

The Income Store closed for business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... The promise that customers would own the website was apparently touted as security. YouTube user Emilia Gardner, a former lawyer, shared a series of videos attempting to warn people off schemes like The Income Store. One thing she uncovered was that ...

US private investment firm appoints first Aussie partner

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... as a consultant at Bain and Company between Sydney and New York for three years prior to this. He began his career as a lawyer, working as a Judge's Associate at the Federal Court of Australia. Bain Capital Private Equity's Asia-Pacific investments include ...

18 misconceptions about FASEA code

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... consider limiting the relevant reading to just pertinent sections of the Corporations Act. Patterson refers to himself as "a lawyer with no dog in the race" and blames comments by advice industry bodies and the media for contributing to confusion around ...

ASIC drags NAB to court for fees-for-no-service

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
ASIC has launched civil penalty proceedings against NAB in the Federal Court over fees-for-no-service, which the bank continued to charge after the Royal Commission. The corporate regulator is seeking to find NAB made several thousand contraventions ...

Industry fund pushes for simpler super splitting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... eventually be adopted by all super funds, with a simple template form that anyone can fill out and lodge without the need for a lawyer," Delahunty said. WLSV's senior policy adviser, Tania Clarke said a simpler super splitting process will provide much-needed ...

CFS culls grandfathered commissions, slashes fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
About 6000 financial advisers are set to lose $1700 per year in revenue, as Colonial First State starts to put grandfathered commissions to bed. The $145 billion manager is starting the phase out of grandfathered commissions with a small slice of the ...

FASEA under pressure on managed accounts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... feel in the least bound with this idea that the code only needs to be complied with in a general sense," Potter said. A lawyer in the IMAP regulatory group pointed out to Potter that explanatory guides are only referred to by judges when the law is unclear. ...

HUB24 announces new board appointment

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... a strong track record through her highly successful career as a senior executive and well respected financial services lawyer," Higgins said. "Ruth's appointment as our first female director is an important part of our strategy to increase diversity ...

Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... released last Friday (November 22)," said McNulty. The luncheon's guest speaker was Rabia Siddique, a human rights lawyer and author who in 2007 sued the UK Ministry of Defence for sex discrimination and failing to acknowledge her role in a hostage ...