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Class action over YouTube fundie fallout

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... Equity Income Fund by including it in the recommended funds making up its Wealth 50 list. RGL Management wants to know whether Hargreaves Lansdown had more knowledge of the potential issues facing the Woodford Equity Income Fund that the average consumer ...

Super funds slapped over smoker premiums

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... Press said. "I strongly encourage trustees to take into account the composition and needs of their membership and check whether their default settings for insurance coverage are reasonable." Members who believe they have been inappropriately classified ...

APRA spells out unlisted asset valuation standards

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... regulator over the accounting standards that are being applied to unlisted assets. "I've written to you previously about whether the accounting standards for unlisted assets are appropriate and whether various industry and retail superfunds are using ...

ASIC slammed over SMSF data

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... and we recognise that," he said. Wilson asked if an entity presents ASIC with data and it does not make coherent sense whether ASIC accepts it on face value and not scrutinise it as a regulator. ASIC's Shipton said: "We applied the appropriate procedures ...

Life insurance at tipping point: Industry leaders

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... "Current market conditions here are incredibly challenging," Stewart said. "No matter which perspective you look from - whether it's the community, the customer, shareholder, reinsurer or so on - I think there is quite a lot of commonality of dissatisfaction ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... O'Donnell's case and the class action will not be seeking any dollar amount in damages. Instead, Barnden said the case is about whether the government has a responsibility to disclose climate change as a risk in bond information statements. Barnden ...

Life insurance needs to prove value

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... Protecting Your Super and Putting Members' Interests First measures gave members an opportunity to make an active decision whether or not to retain their fund life insurance. "At First State Super we have strong opt-in rates and activity to retain insurance. ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... scenarios where the legislation requires Westpac to exercise judgement on how multiple transactions may be aggregated and whether a threshold transaction has actually occurred," it said. "Westpac continues to engage with AUSTRAC in relation to these ...

NULIS calls for clearer regulatory definitions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... additional costs to members. It also revealed that its cost for those services was $2.8 million in FY19. In response to whether NULIS allows external financial advisers access to online facilities to charge for external financial advisers consented by ...

ASIC will not appeal wagyu and shiraz decision

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... proceedings against Westpac in 2017 alleging that between December 2011 and March 2015 the bank failed to properly assess whether borrowers could meet their repayment obligations before entering into home loan contracts. In August 2019, the Federal Court ...