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The challenge of articulating value of ongoing advice

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
A panel session at the FPA Professionals Congress in Sydney has heard of some of the challenges planners face in articulating the value of ongoing advice arrangements. On the panel was Personal Financial Services principal and founding director Angela ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... does not apply to public pension plans, because their governance falls outside of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Some US states led by GOP politicians have rallied behind the anti-ESG/anti-woke capitalism movement by constraining ...

Never been more optimistic: Abood

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
Despite the uncertainty facing the financial advice sector, Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Sarah Abood says she's never felt more optimistic about the future. Welcoming more than 1200 delegates to the 2022 FPA Professionals ...

New rules on the way for BNPL sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
The government is looking to implement stricter regulation for the buy now, pay later industry, releasing an options paper for consultation. According to minister for financial services Stephen Jones, the number of active BNPL accounts grew from five ...

Super funds told to report asset valuations more frequently

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
APRA has released updated guidance on investment governance for superannuation trustees. The update, which comes into effect in January of next year, is designed to assist trustees in meeting their requirements under the recently strengthened Prudential ...

Cost of retirement in lockstep with inflation: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
According to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the amount needed for a comfortable retirement has risen again in the September quarter. The ASFA Retirement Standard September quarter 2022 figures show that couples aged around ...

NGS Super chair to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
After a decade in the role, Dick Shearman is retiring as chair of NGS Super. Shearman joined the NGS board in 2012 as a member representative director and became chair that same year. At the time, it had $4.4 billion and has since grown to $13 billion ...

Advisers, non-relevant providers will not compete: Levy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2022
Financial advisers won't be competing with non-relevant providers to provide advice as they're occupying different worlds and serving different needs, Quality of Advice Review chair Michelle Levy says. Speaking to Financial Standard for an upcoming ...

APRA proposes safeguards against risk events in super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
APRA has proposed to replace the existing Prudential Standard SPS 114 Operational Risk Financial Requirement (SPS 114) with enhanced obligations for trustees, to improve how they manage financial resources to protect fund members from poor operational ...

Magellan seeks $1m increase to director fees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
Magellan is seeking to increase the maximum remuneration paid to all non-executive directors from $750,000 to $1.75 million. Magellan has scheduled an Extraordinary General Meeting to vote on the matter on December 14. The last time shareholders approved ...