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MySuper dashboards, ASIC warns trustees

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... trustees about how they need to be handled. The guidance update focuses on how the dashboards are centrally important disclosure documents, not compliance material to be buried several layers down the fund's website menu structure. "The product dashboard ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... consumer and business confidence. Then again... that's if the Australian Senate votes to pass all the measures as is. Disclosure: lest I be crucified yet again, I'm neither an ALP nor Coalition fan.

Cbus answers CFMEU leak allegations

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Industry fund Cbus has said the disclosure of member information to 'sponsoring organisations' is allowable under certain circumstances, followingA reports that it improperly supplied members' contact details to the Construction, Forestry, Mining and ...

CFA Societies launches initiative to raise ethical standards

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
CFA Societies in Australia and New Zealand have launched an initiative to encourage investors to assert their rights and demand higher standards of ethical conduct from the financial services industry and finance professionals. Investor First Week in ...

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... PDS and its manufacturer." It suggested that advisers fund a panel of research houses that would examine new product disclosure statements before they're released to the market. "This business model will force advisers to fund research, force research ...

Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... FoFA: advisers' best interest duty and the 'catch-all' phrase, the opt-in requirements, the obligation to provide fee disclosure statements and the separation of general and personal advice. The Financial Services Council (FSC) asked the Senate Economics ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... announced that the start date for the product dashboard for 'choice' super funds and introduction of the portfolio holdings disclosure regime will be delayed 12 months to July 2015. Rollout of the MySuper product dashboard is unaffected by the announcement. ...

BT Financial Group posts 21% profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... for market share at 19.7%. Asgard ranked top three in Investment Trends' survey and ranked number one for Best Fee Disclosure Statement and Best Platform Integration Functionality. The company also said it is on track to deliver its Panorama platform ...

IOSCO recommends improved disclosure for direct products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Forum of the International Organisation of Securities Organisations (IOSCO) to call for improved global regulation and disclosure standards for products sold this way. In Australia directly distributed financial products are estimated to account for ...

Compliance absorbs half of platforms' development budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... developing usability, adviser support, reporting, direct shares and corporate actions functionality, as well as building fee disclosure statement (FDS) tools from scratch. CFS FirstWrap topped the ranking of full-function platforms by overall functionality ...