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E&P chief exits early

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
... 2023," E&P said. E&P settled the Shine-led class action, which related to representatives giving conflicted advice for its in-house product, the Masters Residential Property Fund (URF), for $16 million. Shine alleged that E&P's financial advisers ...

AFCA secures $1.2bn in refunds

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
... efficient financial services sector." Locke said the organisation hopes its work with firms will lead to significant in-house complaints handling. "Consumers shouldn't have to be escalating this volume of disputes to AFCA," he noted. Locke concluded ...

E&P settles class action for $16m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023
E&P Financial Group has settled a class action relating to investment advice representatives gave for its in-house product, the Masters Residential Property Fund (URF) for $16 million. The lawsuit led by Shine Lawyers alleged that E&P's financial ...

Guideway launches file note AI tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023
... conversations into file notes, saving financial advisers up to two hours in administration time. FinTalk, which was built in-house by Guideway, records client conversations, produces a transcript, and refines this into a file note. Guideway executive ...

US default risk: Are credit default swaps signalling trouble?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
... due to intense political partisanship. "Today's supercharged political partisanship - with Republicans controlling the House of Representatives and Democrats controlling the Senate and the White House - has only served to heighten market concerns ...

Pay gap bill passes, effective next year

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... their gender pay gap results and outlines their plans for action." Aware Super chief executive Deanne Stewart commended the House of Representatives on passing the bill into law. "The gender pay gap is a stubborn beast. We've been talking about it ...

Government housing measures progress

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... the legislation to deliver the single biggest investment in affordable and social housing in more than a decade passed the House of Representatives as well as two other bills pertaining to the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council and National ...

Super, advice class actions dampen CBA results

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... State Investments Limited (CFSIL) kept members from the CFS FirstChoice Fund and Commonwealth Essential Super invested in in-house products. It also affected members in the FirstWrap Pooled Cash Account who earned lower interest rates well below the ...

Fiducian expands adviser base, increases FUA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... stakeholders and shareholders would benefit over time". During the last six months of 2022, Fiducian launched Auxilium, an in-house platform for separately managed accounts targeting independent financial advisers. It also launched Deep Green SMA in ...

APRA flags concerns over fund sustainability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
Appearing before the House of Representatives' Economics Committee, APRA's Margaret Cole said the regulator is concerned about some of the super funds that passed the performance test yet fail the regulator's own sustainability testing. ...
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