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AFA names education award finalists

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
The Association of Financial Advisers has named the 2019 finalists for its AFA Excellence in Education Award. In its 12th year now, the award recognises "the transformative power of education in advice" and rewards advisers who are "striving for excellence ...

ASIC fines Finclear $70,000

KRISTI CHENG, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... market integrity rules and resulted in creating a market for the shares that was neither fair nor orderly. Finclear was aware of ASIC's expectations that the offer should have been held in the market for a prolonged period of time, the MDP said ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
BlackRock partnered with a $23 billion superannuation fund to develop an ESG-focused global bond index fund. VicSuper has again partnered with the global fund manager, this time to develop a global bond index fund similar to the ESG Australian Bond ...

Consultancy launches virtual business coaching

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... practical resources available to a wider range of advisers on demand. "We've found that a lot of advisers are now acutely aware of the need to run their business like a business. Certainly, with the client still at the core of all they do, but in ...

ASIC clamps down on opaque active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... a growing market, most liquidity is still provided by only two entities. ASIC expects issuers and market operators to be aware of this risk and incorporate a means of managing it into their risk management framework." Internal market making enables active ...

ASIC sues ANZ over unlawful fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... the fees during the 2003-2016 period, despite what ANZ already knew," the regulator said in a statement. ANZ first became aware there was a risk the bank was not entitled to charge these fees in July 2011. Despite this, the bank did not report it to ...

Active, passive investing continues to confuse: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... of surveyed investors across the globe understand the difference between active and passive investing, and only 68% were aware index funds provided market returns in either direction but offered no protection from market failures. The findings, from ...

ATO clarifies SMSF death benefit income streams

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... practicable. This is by immediately cashing the benefit in the form of a new retirement phase income stream as soon as they become aware of the breach; cashing the benefit in the form of a lump sum; and rolling over the interest that supported the death ...

Reform implementation timeframe too short: AustralianSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
The Government's move to require superannuation trustees to stop providing opt-out insurance to new members under-25 or with low balance accounts by October 1 has riled Australia's largest fund. Airing the fund's position on the Government's ...

Fidelity appoints sustainable investing lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
The $430 billion fund manager appointed a global head of stewardship and sustainable investing from within its own ranks. Fidelity International promoted Jenn-Hui Tan to the role, which will see the 12-year Fidelity veteran responsible for leading the ...