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FASEA adds exam sittings, approved subjects

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... restrictions. FASEA will hold exams from January 28 to February 2, March 25-30, May 20-25, July 15-20, September 9-14 and November 4-9 next year. Locations differ for each sitting and are available on FASEA's website. Alternatively, advisers can elect ...

Super fund expands investment exclusions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... property and infrastructure has been updated to align with the APRA Information Paper Heatmap - MySuper products"released in November 2019 Finally, from 1 October 2020, information about HESTA's foreign currency hedge strategy for each investment option ...

Industry fund underpaid SG to staff

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... Australian Taxation Office updated its guidance, meaning the fund should have included annual leave loading payments paid in November each year in the base for calculating SG. However it did not do so. The error in calculation meant 165 current and former ...

Hearts and Minds donates almost $10m to charity

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... outperforming its global benchmark (MSCI World Net TR), which increased 4.8% over the financial year. Since its inception in November 2018, HM1 has generated a pre-tax return of 51.3%, compared to the benchmark's 18.2% over the same nearly two year period. ...

ACSRF, NGS Super explore merger

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... healthcare, aged care and welfare. So far this year, First State Super has announced a merger with WA Super (expected around November 30) and merged with VicSuper, while Cbus and Media Super are conducting due diligence. In March, Tasplan and MTAA Super ...

Advisers file class action against AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... outcomes which, so far as the BOLR changes go, AMP has not been open to. However, having met with AMP regularly since November last year, Macdonald said the group has recently been open to discussing the "slow and protracted" exit process that advisers ...

Hearts and Minds but no ratings

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... Investment Management, Regal Funds Management and TDM Growth Partners. It seems to be working; since its listing on the ASX in November 2018 the fund has returned 51.3%. Over the past six months alone it has returned 15.9%. In comparison, the MSCI World ...

Westpac found to be immature, reactive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... Reassessment Report, which labelled the bank "immature" and "reactive". The bank first completed a self-assessed CGA back in November 2018, however decided to launch a reassessment following AUSTRAC's allegations the bank breached anti-money laundering ...

AustralianSuper appoints head of financial crime

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... privacy, data governance and fund resilience. The role reports to Paul Schroder, who moved to chief risk officer role last November after about 12 years with the fund. Garcia linked his current role to his background as an engineer. "I saw this role ...

Industry fund eyes KiwiSaver accounts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... changes," Watson said. According to the APRA heat map, First Super's default option's total fees fell from 1.64% at November, 2019 for a $50,000 account balance, to 1.19% at May, 2020 for the same balance. The 45bps improvement pulled the fund ...