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Early super release scheme a mistake: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has warned against repeating the early release of super scheme that gave unrestricted access to retirement savings. The early release of super scheme allowed individuals to withdraw up to $20,000 of their retirement savings ...

TAA urges active recruitment for industry sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
The Advisers Association (TAA) is urging the industry to proactively attract more entrants to the profession, starting by working closely with universities and education providers. TAA chief executive Neil Macdonald said advisers should think laterally ...

Aware Super to boost investment capabilities with new platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
Aware Super is enhancing its investment capability by creating an in-house investment platform through an internal initiative called 'Project Odin'. The aim of the platform and Project Odin is for Aware Super to strengthen its internal management foundations ...

CALI hires policy director from FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
... the years. "At the FPA members have shared a lot of frustrations with the cost and time of advice delivery and the profession - and outside SOAs/FDS/OFA which we have tried to provide novel, efficient, engaging, profit driving solutions for - the other ...

Invest Blue trials nine-day fortnight for advisers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
The financial advice group has adopted a nine-day fortnight pilot, giving full-time employees an extra 26 days off a year at a cost of roughly $1.9 million per annum. In a bid to foster employee wellbeing and drive productivity, the financial advice ...

Advice firms trading at premium: Broker

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
Financial advice firms continue to trade at a premium compared to other professional services firms, according to an industry broker. Centurion Market Makers' newly released Practice acquisition sale & valuation guide reveals that the demand for premium ...

Aware Super executive to start boutique

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
Two of Aware Super's equities managers have quit the super fund to set up their own fund. Aware Super head of direct equities and portfolio manager Tim Riordan has left the superannuation fund. Going with him is Mike Teran, an associate portfolio ...

FPA voices concern on proposed CSLR, FAR laws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... directors to resort to the scheme - otherwise we risk groups allowing their advice entities to go bankrupt (and the profession wearing the costs of consumer compensation), while the group and its directors continue their other profitable activities unscathed," ...

Final voting for ESG Power50 open

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023
FS Sustainability is launching the final voting round of the inaugural ESG Power50, a list that will name the 50 most influential ESG professionals working at ASX-listed companies in Australia. For the first time, readers of FS Sustainability along ...

FPA policy and advocacy lead steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2023
The Financial Planning Association of Australia's general manager of policy and advocacy will step down after seven years with the organisation. Ben Marshan joined the FPA in 2015 as a manager for professional standards and advocacy and moved into several ...