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Federal Court rejects two CBA class actions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... relevantly pleaded times, would, or would be likely to, influence persons who commonly invest in securities in deciding whether to acquire or dispose of CBA shares." "More generally, I am not satisfied that the information, in any of its pleaded forms ...

'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... to understand as a simple policy," she said. She said trustees should be looking at their risk management processes and whether they're protecting members' funds against bad behaviour in advice and should be investing in their operations to keep ...

Inflation spooks retirees more than healthcare costs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... while over half (56%) believing they have not saved enough. Schroders head of US defined contribution Deb Boyden said whether it's a trip to the petrol station, grocery store, or pharmacy, prices in the US have increased noticeably in recent years ...

Litigation funder disputes AMP BOLR settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
... Member's entitlement to share in the Settlement Sum by a proportionate share of the Funder's Entitlements, regardless of whether they have entered into a litigation funding agreement with the Funder or not," the documents read. "The effect of ...

ASIC clamps down on advisers, trustees cold calling

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... companies contacting members that then leads to a referral to another party for the provision of financial advice to consider whether they require an AFSL. "Even if they do not require a licence, they must ensure any representations they make to consumers ...

Fidelity to roll out more active ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
... benchmark by 0.48%. It currently has about $275 million in FUM. A meeting of unitholders will be convened on May 14 to vote on whether the constitution should be modified, and a new class of units allowed to be listed. At least 75% of unitholders must ...

UniSuper battles major system outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
... of transparency and delay in communication is unacceptable, causing them to question the true nature of the outage and whether they should take their super elsewhere. However, it isn't just members that are impacted. According to the Finance Sector ...

Men, women in same occupation drive pay gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
... economic research organisation E61 Institute compared men and women of similar age, their employment and marital status, whether they had children, and academic qualifications working in the same occupation. It found that women have an hourly wage that ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... and, ultimately, make sure the system is working in the interests of all Australians." The review suggested considering whether the BIIP should be retained as a substantial program. "We note that outcomes for the small Significant Investor stream have ...

Macquarie Bank to pay $10m for unauthorised fee transactions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... court determined that between 1 May 2016 and 15 January 2020, Macquarie failed to implement effective controls to monitor whether third party bulk transactions under the fee authority were actually for fees. While Macquarie initially defended the proceeding ...