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Disgraced lobbyist charged

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
A disgraced American lobbyist, businessman and movie producer, who was played by actor Kevin Spacey in a movie about his life, has been charged over his role in a fraudulent bitcoin scheme. Jack Abramoff, who in 2006 was sentenced to six years in federal ...

VicSuper disputes fee hike claim

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... $3500", the industry fund told Financial Standard that members would not be subjected to a "fee hit" as asserted in the article. According to the fund, more than 225,000 members will instead receive fee relief, in the form of a 20% decrease in administration ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... 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 Economics visiting fellow, and former senior public ...

IOOF to provide fee relief to adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
IOOF has announced a new initiative that will see its network of financial advisers offer free financial guidance to local communities until the end of September. IOOF said it is providing fee relief to its advisers to volunteer 60 hours of their time ...

Advisers involved in ERS scams: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
ASIC superannuation senior executive leader Jane Eccleston has written an article pointing to financial advisers as part of the problem in scams targeting people's super amid COVID-19. Eccleston said: "ASIC is concerned that some advisers may use the ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... households and businesses, already leveraged with debt well before the COVID-19 crisis, struggle to pay back their loans. In an article for the Conversation, University of Sydney Professor of macroeconomics James Morley and UNSW Professor of economics ...

Advisers adapt as crisis unfolds

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
Despite both the health and economic destruction that the COVID-19 pandemic has left in its wake, the environment, albeit dark, has highlighted the value of Australia's advice industry. The human element of advice; the ability to connect with someone ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... avoid trading near open and close, as this is when the trading price and NAV differences tend to be the widest." This article originally appeared on the front page of Financial Standard's March 30 fortnightly print edition, which can be read online ...

Calls for super release to borrow from RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... from their superannuation balances, in the case they find themselves out of work or lose 20% of their income. But in an article for The Conversation, finance professor Kevin Davis said the government's "early superannuation release" proposal will ...

Volatility hits super funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... members a fairly wide exposure, without betting everything on the one asset class." CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article included incorrect returns for AustralianSuper's balanced and Australian share options. Financial Standard and Rainmaker ...