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Chief economist update: Coronavirus cures climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... volatility ahead until the incidence of infections has peaked. The good news? The coronavirus is succeeding where the Kyoto Protocol or the Paris Agreement, and many other gabfests on climate change failed. Nature's rebalancing itself. Greta Thunberg ...

Banned advisers still working in advice: FPA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... industry. As part of the government's proposed legislation to implement the recommendations from the Royal Commission, a new protocol will apply to financial advisers which will require reference checks to be conducted. The FPA has released its submission ...

Super fund appoints GM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
A $57 billion industry superannuation fund has made a new appointment to its leadership team. Rest has moved to strengthen its strategic technology capabilities through the appointment of a new general manager of technology, as it moves towards a new ...

Culture index launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
In response to current concerns around Australian corporate culture exposed by the Hayne Royal Commission, a Melbourne-based startup has launched a standardised index creating culture transparency. The Workability Index (TWI) aims to provide companies ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
At the FPA Professionals Congress speakers who specialise in protecting vulnerable, elderly and disabled people from financial abuse shared how planners can be part of the solution. Anne McGowan, chief executive of Protecting Seniors Wealth, started ...

SMSF scheme sees creator jailed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... orchestrating an illegal early release of a superannuation scheme, with the court finding the fund did not comply with relevant protocol, procedures and requirements of superannuation legislation. Between 2007 and 2009, Nguyen used the fund, called Tot ...

Aussie blockchain investor goes global

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... adoption from JP Morgan, Facebook, IBM, Starbucks, Fidelity, Nasdaq, ASX etc." "Global banks are either developing their own protocol/solution or are part of a larger consortium. Blockchain is really just the backend database that most users won't ever ...

Indigenous super access needs improvement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
Two years since AUSTRAC updated its guidance on overcoming identification issues for Indigenous people, there is more work to be done on the superannuation industry front. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Eva Scheerlinck ...

AFSL reference checking protocols required

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... shop around for another licensee to employ them," Hayne said. Consideration could be given to making a breach of the protocol (or equivalent obligations) equivalent to a breach of financial services laws for the purposes of section 912A of the Corporations ...

Super funds excel in reporting obligation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... data quality," he said. "We have also been working on updating the Involuntary Superannuation Account Transfer (ISAT) protocol to provide guidance in relation to the new event-based reporting obligations."