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Active Super rejigs MySuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
Active Super has changed the structure of its lifecycle MySuper product to derisk members slower than before, while also renaming two Choice options. Active Super's lifecyle MySuper product currently divides members into four stages: High Growth ...

Clime ousts Schafer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
Clime Investment Management executive Neil Schafer has been removed from the company by an overwhelming majority of votes. At the extraordinary general meeting on August 6, about 95% or 37.54 million shareholders voted in favour of removing Schafer ...

Final YFYS regulations out, government "backflips" on admin fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
In final YFYS regulations released last week, the government now wants super fund to be only tested on last year's administration fees instead of eight years' average in the APRA performance test. The last minute changes to the Your Future ...

ANZ adds former CFSGAM exec to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
The bank has added a former Colonial First State Global Asset Management co-head of unlisted infrastructure investments to its board. Christine O'Reilly will join the ANZ board on November 1 as a non-executive director, subject to shareholder approval ...

Clime wants director removed

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
The chair of Clime Investment Management and one of its shareholders are calling for the removal of long-serving executive Neil Schafer. Clime has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting on August 6, putting forth a resolution to shareholders to ...

Super, fund manager ASX dominance launches inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
Member of Parliament Tim Wilson will lead the charge to determine if big super's domination over the Australian sharemarket is stifling competition. This morning, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics announced the launch ...

Super, ASIC beneficiaries of advice challenges: Hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... advice. Falinski asked what options everyday Australians are "left with", and Harrison suggested super funds may be a port of call. Asked whether he was saying that ASIC and super funds would be the beneficiaries, Harrison answered: "Yes, they would ...

Tidswell agrees it contravened Corps Act

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... a monitoring policy, including for websites that MobiSuper used to generate leads for new members. It did not monitor the call centres used by MobiSuper for compliance, including refusing the call scripts used by them. This is not the first time Tidswell ...

AFA slams skyrocketing ASIC levy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers fears that ASIC's FY21 industry levy will blow out even more than its estimates. The association does not want history to repeat itself, pointing to how the FY20 levy jumped 54% higher than ASIC's estimates. ...

Commonwealth FP under review, partially offloaded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
Commonwealth Bank has transferred part of Commonwealth Financial Planning to AIA, with the remainder of the business now subject to a strategic review. The big bank has offloaded part of Commonwealth FP to AIA Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary ...