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CSLR raises concern among advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has raised concerns about the cost of the government's proposed Compensation Scheme of Last Resort and the fact that super funds and managed investment schemes are excluded from the proposed regulation. ...

ASIC releases grandfathered arrangement findings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
The corporate regulator said it was pleased with how the financial advice industry ended conflicted grandfathered arrangements, with 96% of product issuers complying with the new law that took effect at the start of the year. ASIC found that 1227 financial ...

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

Lifespan appoints compliance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
Lifespan Financial Planning has hired a risk and compliance lead who was previously a financial adviser for the firm. Adrian Caspar joins the Sydney office with 15 years' experience in compliance, risk management, financial advice and governance. Caspar ...

MySuper performance soars

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
MySuper options have delivered the best annual financial returns in over three decades, new research shows. The latest data from Rainmaker Information's Default MySuper Index recorded 2020/21 financial year returns of an average of 18%, after all fees ...

Aware questioned on bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
The $130 billion industry fund Aware Super was grilled on the bonuses it pays executives and how it justifies them. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics asked Aware chief executive Deeanne Stewart and chief investment officer ...

Funds grilled despite record returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
AustralianSuper and Cbus faced an extremely hostile questioning from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, which at times devolved to committee members yelling over one another. AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk and Cbus ...

AFA slams new SOA measures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has hit back at ASIC and APRA for causing "confusion" and "interfering" with financial advice as they look to introduce new changes to Statements of Advice. The association points to the regulators' joint letter ...

BT Super for Life ups insurance premiums

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
BT Super for Life will increase the cost of its standard life insurance cover by 13.1% from August 1. The standard cover includes death and TPD. As an example, a 34-year-old male member of BT Super for Life previously paid $11.41 each month for one ...

AustralianSuper names next merger partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
AustralianSuper is working on its next merger, this time with a 43-year-old industry fund. The nation's largest super fund has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to merge with LUCRF Super, the Labor Union Cooperative Retirement Fund. Established ...