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FASEA extension passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
The extension to the FASEA education requirements has passed. The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology Senator Jane Hume tweeted that her promise of an extension for financial advisers had been kept. Advisers ...

FSU calls for NAB staff to audit pay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The Finance Sector Union of Australia has called on NAB staffers to audit their own pay, as the bank kicks off an investigation into staff underpayments. It comes after NAB announced last week it would be launching an independent investigation into ...

FPA accuses ASIC of price gouging

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has hit back at the corporate regulator accusing it of price gouging after increasing the industry funding levy for financial advisers by 38%. The FPA has urged the corporate regulator to reconsider the ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... outbreak later in the year". This is the numerical equivalent of what Fed Chairman Jerome Powell declared in his June 10 press conference: "The extent of the downturn and the pace of recovery remain extraordinarily uncertain and will depend in large ...

Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... 1.4% in 2019 to 0.8% in 2020 before speeding up to 1.6% in 2021 and 1.7% in 2022." As chair Jerome Powell explained in his press conference: "What the June SEP shows is a general expectation of an economic recovery beginning in the second half of this ...

Aussie financial firms struggle to manage risk: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Australian financial firms are struggling to keep up with the pace of technological change, with two thirds of executives revealing that risks are emerging more rapidly than ever before. More than 70 Australian senior risk executives from the major ...

Super consolidation to slash 60% of funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Within the next decade, the number of superannuation funds serving Australians will drop by 60%, according to a new KPMG report. New KPMG research shows the 217 APRA-regulated superannuation funds will shrink to 138 within the next five years, with ...

AMP Foundation offers $2m for COVID-19 recovery

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
AMP's corporate philanthropic foundation is offering $2 million in grants for non-profits working to meet COVID-19's challenges in the community. To be eligible, the organisation must have annual income of less than $20 million, derive less than 70% ...

Westpac hunts new insto bank chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
The chief executive of Westpac's institutional bank has retired. Lyn Cobley has been head of the institutional bank for the past five years. Her retirement comes just a week after two other senior Westpac executives departed. Westpac chief executive ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
With wage cuts across the country and wage rises likely off the table, a former senior public servant and academic has pressed the case for wage growth instead. In an article for The Conversation, Australian National University College of Business and ...