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Activist LIC appoints new director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... Sandon director Paul Jensen served on WAM Capital's board for 13 years, departing Sandon in 2017 to make way for corporate lawyer Peter Velez.

S&P reaffirms Sirtex after new offer from Chinese manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
ASX-listed healthcare firm Sirtex, whose investors include some of Australia's leading fund managers, will remain in the S&P/ASX 200 after its US takeover has been postponed in light of a new offer. Sirtex entered into a trading halt and then announced ...

Perpetual director joins ING board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... Investment Company (PIC) on 1 July 2017. Fox took over from Peter Scott, who served as PIC's chair since it launched in 2014. A lawyer by training, Fox has 15 years' board and executive experience in a range of financial institutions, infrastructure ...

S&P to remove ASX healthcare firm from index

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
An ASX-listed healthcare firm, currently subject to a potential class action by shareholders which include major Australian asset managers, will be removed from the ASX 200 pending acquisition by a US company. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Sirtex Medical ...

AMP becomes class action target

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
IMF Bentham is the latest firm to finance proposed class action proceedings against AMP in light of evidence at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. The litigation funding group said it ...

Royal Commission invite refused by Dover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Dover Financial Advisers was revealed as the only large scale financial advice licensee to decline the Royal Commission's request for assistance in identifying instances of misconduct. Appearing before the Commission yesterday, Dover owner Terry McMaster ...

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... that when you go for advice it's a bit like you go to a doctor who's been trained to deal with your problem, you go to a lawyer and the same thing," she said. "I felt that the professional financial adviser and business banker at Westpac, working at ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... tit-for-tat, or the Trump/Stormy Daniels alleged dalliance, or the alleged Trump/FBI raid on the offices of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen... but whatever it is, it had diverted investor attention away from Brexit. For sure, Britain would be ...

Lawyers slam life insurers in Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
The life insurance industry is failing to prove it can self-regulate via its two "deficient" codes, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers' submission to the banking Royal Commission. There have been more than 700 breaches of the Life Insurance Code ...

ClearView names new tech GM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... as legal counsel before becoming head of legal and company secretariat in 2015. Before joining the business, she was a lawyer at Australian Business Lawyers and corportate legal counsel at Ashington Group. ClearView managing director Simon Swanson praised ...