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Meller to leave AMP immediately

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
Craig Meller has stepped down as chief executive of AMP effective immediately. AMP has announced Meller will leave the role in the wake of financial advice failings and misconduct brought to light by the Royal Commission. AMP non-executive director ...

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
A Westpac case study analysed by the Royal Commission has demonstrated the devastating impact of inappropriate financial advice. Providing testimony in the first case study of inappropriate advice to be explored by the Commission, former Westpac customer ...

Dead advice clients slugged ongoing service fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
The Commonwealth Bank has admitted one of its advice subsidiaries charged ongoing service fees to clients it knew had passed away. Providing testimony to the Royal Commission today, CBA executive general manager, Commonwealth Private Marianne Perkovic ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... materials." How fast and how much these price increases flow through into the economy's general inflation level will determine if the Fed raises interest rates by another two or three or four more this year. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments ...

CFSGAM prepares IPO, names board candidates

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Colonial First State Global Asset Management will work towards an initial public offering and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange following a strategic review from its parent bank. Commonwealth Bank announced this afternoon it had completed ...

ANZ issues last minute RC submission correction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
ANZ issued a correction to its submissions to the Royal Commission over the weekend ahead of the next fortnight's hearings on financial advice. Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr said the Royal Commission was provided with a correction by ANZ on Sunday ...

ASIC disqualifies two SMSF auditors

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
ASIC disqualified two self-managed super fund auditors - one in South Australia and one in the ACT - for breaching independence requirements. The South Australian auditor, John Tretola, was found to have breached his independence requirements of APES ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Perhaps it's being drowned by the ongoing Trump/Xi "my tariff is bigger than yours" tit-for-tat, or the Trump/Stormy Daniels alleged dalliance, or the alleged Trump/FBI raid on the offices of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen... but whatever it ...

PwC urges super trustees to fast-track GDPR compliance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... consider the personal information they collect or process (especially when identifying any members located in the EU) and determine to what extent they will need to update their privacy and data protection frameworks to meet GDPR requirements. It will ...

New regulations will choke unlisted property market: PFA

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... managers to identify the appropriate target market for their products. Under this new regulation, product providers must determine "the product would generally meet the likely objectives, financial situations and needs of the persons in the target market." ...