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First advice reform bill passes parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
The first tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) legislation passed both the upper and lower houses yesterday. Treasury Laws Amendment (Delivering Better Financial Outcomes and Other Measures) Bill aims to reduce red tape for financial ...

IFS launches two courses with Kaplan

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Industry Fund Services (IFS) has partnered with Kaplan Professional to offer superannuation fund staff further education and training as the sector gears up to offer more financial advice. The courses target super fund staff predominately working in ...

Former director disqualified for breaching obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... investees, ASIC said. Finally, he breached undertakings to the Federal Court in relation to the property of O'Corp Media, the regulator said. During this time, Clickthru has been known by a raft of different names, including Avoid Bankruptcy, Cornerstone ...

Committee calls for 'sick agency' ASIC to be split in half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
The Senate committee tasked with assessing the capabilities of ASIC says the government should recognise the regulator has "comprehensively failed to fulfil its regulatory remit", calling for a complete overhaul of its structure, powers and how it's ...

APRA heightens expectations around trustees' spending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... member outcomes, placing a clearer focus on superannuation members' interests when it comes to fund expenditure. The regulator updated Prudential Standard SPS 515 Strategic Planning and Member Outcomes and its related guidance to "ensure members' interests ...

Retirement Income Covenant still weak: APRA, ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
Superannuation funds continue to grapple with their retirement income strategy obligations, citing financial advice regulation uncertainty, costs, and the lack of member engagement as major barriers. This is according to joint oversight by ASIC and ...

AllianceBernstein appoints chief AI officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
AllianceBernstein announced Andrew Chin has been named the investment firm's first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer. Chin has been working with the firm for 27 years having started as chief risk officer and head of quantitative research ...

ASIC calls out sloppy adviser data

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
ASIC is reprimanding AFS licensees (AFSL) for submitting inaccurate information about their financial advisers and will ramp up its enforcement from August. AFSLs are making numerous errors when it comes to providing data on the Financial Advisers Register ...

BlackRock acquires Preqin in $4.8bn deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
BlackRock has agreed to acquire Preqin for £2.55 billion or approximately US$3.2 billion ($4.8 billion) in cash. BlackRock said bringing together Preqin's data and research tools with Aladdin's complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform ...

ASIC takes action against Guildfords FM, director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... high-risk trading of derivative products, specifically contracts for difference (CFD) that resulted in investor losses. The regulator estimated that about $40 million of investor money has been lost. Further, as trustee of the Magnolia Head Fund, Guildfords ...