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Industry body questions AFCA funding model

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
Funding of the newly established Australian Financial Complaints Authority must be fairly distributed across the financial services industry to reflect the accountability of each sector. In its submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... "material business risk" it poses. In particular, claimants pointed to the bank's refusal to rule out participating in funding for the Adani Carmichael coal mine. The claim made to the courts alleged that by not disclosing the risks climate change poses ...

Contango appoints small cap portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... continue to expend cash at the rate indicated by [the quarterly report], CGA may not have sufficient cash to continue funding its operations?" In response, CGA company secretary Hari Morfis said the negative operating cashflows "reflect the investment ...

Retail investors given equity crowdfunding boost

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... forms of finance are particularly important for innovative, early-stage businesses that may have difficulty accessing funding from traditional sources," Treasurer Scott Morrison said. "As part of this Bill, proprietary companies wanting to access equity ...

CVC to launch venture capital fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... way these last two to three years: a growing number of top quality opportunities for investment now well supported with funding possibilities; it truly makes this asset class a much more compelling proposition today than in the past." "We recognise the ...

DomaCom and ASIC reach agreement on retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... home while remaining in it, has the potential to be a meaningful solution to Australia's growing issue of retirement self-funding and can also be used to facilitate intergenerational wealth strategies. "Many retirees are asset rich and cash poor; this ...

Hands off super: SMSFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... changes to the system. The Association's submission, which also raises issues of housing affordability, infrastructure funding, red tape and how to better integrate superannuation with social security policy, says superannuation underwent significant ...

Centrepoint forms fintech alliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... clients and advisers to understand and better manage how their everyday cash flow affects their long term planning and funding requirements," McDonnell said. "Advisers can use these cash flow tools in a number of ways depending on their client value ...

ASIC targets retirement products and services

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... the industry-led reform package using life insurance policies, remuneration, lapse rates and clawbacks. ASIC's industry funding model, which was passed into law on 15 June, will begin issuing its first invoices in January 2019. "Significantly, the introduction ...

Rethink the great Australian dream: Report

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... to address some of the issues highlighted including relaxing planning restrictions, developing consistent planning and funding models for transport infrastructure, improving protections for long-term renters, and further relaxing rules around the means ...