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ASIC prepares industry for claims handling law

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
The corporate regulator has released more information to help life insurers and financial advisers adapt to new regulation when handling insurance claims. ASIC's information sheet and consultation paper C12 Proof: Claims Handling and Settling Service ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett History is again bearing witness to the "Sage of Omaha's" widely-known investing principle for who would have dreamed that the US equity market would rally ...

CFM fund to wind up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The French quant manager is shutting an Australian fund, after returns slipped into negative territory and fund size stagnates. The CFM Institutional Systematic Diversified used a multi-strategy quantitative approach to target positive returns over ...

End of the road for advice qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
Described as the 'end of an era', the Diploma of Financial Planning and Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning have been removed from the national regulator's register of vocational education and training. On November 3, the Australian Skills ...

Retail superannuation funds grilled on member priorities

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
A parliamentary inquiry has again cast doubt over retail superannuation funds' ability to put the best financial interests of members ahead of profit and shareholders. The most recent Standing Committee on Economics into super heard instances of ...

ASIC investigates ASX

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
The corporate regulator is investigating the ASX following an outage last week which saw investors unable to trade for 24 hours. "ASIC has confirmed to ASX that it is conducting an investigation into the ASX Trade outage on Monday, 16 November 2020," ...

Praemium board bungle

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
A non-executive director of the platform provider has been forced to step down following an administrative error, while the former Powerwrap chair has been appointed to the board. Claire Willette has stepped down as a non-executive director after her ...

Implemented Portfolios adds to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
Individually managed account operator Implemented Portfolios has welcomed a non-executive director to the board who recently founded an investment consulting firm. Steve Garth, principal of Principia Investment Consultants and former Dimensional Fund ...

Chief economist update: Australian wages slow but still grow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
While many have seen their wages stagnate, or even drop, this year the latest figures from the Australian Bureau Statistics (ABS) shows wages are up slightly from last year. "The September quarter is generally a quarter of solid wage growth, however ...

Super fund increases premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
A $117 billion superannuation fund is changing the cost of insurance across the board at the turn of the New Year. Most QSuper members will see income protection cover go up 31%, while death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover will increase ...