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Zuper opens its doors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
Millennial super fund Zuper has officially launched to make a play at the $2.6 trillion superannuation industry. Aiming to "empower" millions of young disengaged Australians with their superannuation, Zuper was founded in early 2017 by chief product ...

Banks take 1500 days to identify breaches: ASIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
Big banking groups are taking an average of 1500 days to internally identify breaches in conduct, ASIC chair James Shipton said in his address at the FSC Summit in Melbourne today. And this is only the first step in the reporting the breach to ASIC ...

BTFG will pay back grandfathered commissions to customers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... products, it is to look after the best interest of the clients," Mackay said. "Shane Oliver said today that good advisers are finding it hard to find clients. I say, good financial planners are having to turn away clients and are running full capacit ...

SMSFA slams PC draft findings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
The SMSF Association has slammed the Productivity Commission for labelling smaller-sized self-managed super funds as "fundamentally flawed" and for not comparing returns on a level playing field. In its submission to the Productivity Commission's draft ...

Member takes $50 billion industry fund to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... preventative actions. Mark McVeigh, a 23-year-old Rest member, is taking the fund to court over claims he is having trouble finding out what is being done to protect his retirement savings. The basis of McVeigh's argument is the UN's Intergovernmental ...

Advice firm partners for lending expertise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... director Jonathan Kilborn said. "With so many lending choices, options and institutions on the market, the process of finding the best outcome can be overwhelming - hence our decision to establish the alliance and service offering with Thyme." Thyme ...

CPA Australia scraps advice offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... conducted by PwC Strategy concluded that demand from members for the offering was insufficient to ensure financial viability, finding no evidence to suggest that future demand would change this. Instead, PwC Strategy recommended CPA Australia consider ...

Pre-retirees fear longevity risk: AustralianSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
AustralianSuper is launching a retirement confidence index it says will shine a light on how the superannuation system can reduce anxiety among pre-retirees. Created in conjunction with Monash University, the AustralianSuper Retirement Confidence Index ...

CBA, ANZ told to clean up superannuation distribution

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... investigation alleges Commonwealth Bank and ANZ branches offered superannuation products to customers at the end of general fact-finding processes, which the customers may have mistaken as "personal" advice rather than "general" advice. Commonwealth ...

Balanced portfolios better than chasing winners: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
A global investment manager believes asset classes move positions too quickly for investors wishing to jump on the coattails of a short-term winner. Latest research from Russell Investments finds Australian investors with long-term investment goals ...