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Crypto regulation proposed: Bragg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
A Senate committee is proposing a regulatory framework for digital assets and crypto-asset businesses to protect consumers, promote investment in Australia and deliver competition, but the industry has concerns. The Select Committee on Australia as ...

ASIC eyes employee super fund choice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... review this financial year on how trustees abide by its requirements and may consider action where misconduct causing consumer harm is identified. ASIC commissioner Danielle Press said it is important that employers do not take steps that are inconsistent ...

Frontier wins NZ client

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... asset consultant gained its first client in New Zealand after being appointed as investment consultant. Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust (TECT) is one of New Zealand's largest community-focused trusts with over NZ$1 billion in funds under management. The ...

Economic recap: Week to October 15

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... entrenched. For sure, reducing liquidity in the system would help ease pressure on prices by somewhat restraining soaring consumer demand. Then again, it's unclear how this could immediately relieve bottlenecks in the supply chains and the energy ...

Industry mixed over FSC advice framework

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
The financial advice industry welcomes the Financial Services Council (FSC) recommendations to help reduce red tape and make financial advice more affordable, but one dealer group is unsure whether the FSC is trustworthy - particularly for risk advisers. ...

Super system "frayed": Hume

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... years, investment opacity and compulsion, stemming from the mandated nature of superannuation, has allowed for widespread consumer disengagement - and mission creep from funds. " She identified these points as the main drivers of inefficiency and structural ...

FSC advice reforms slash time, costs by 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... increase protection for up to 275,300 consumers who could be reclassified as retail clients and therefore brought into the consumer protection framework for financial advice, which is a change long sought by consumer advocates. This would raise the threshold ...

Economic recap: Week to October 8

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
... demarcation. There's no "stag". However, there is a risk that inflation becomes more enduring. Higher prices would constrain consumer spending that would be constricted even more when central banks are forced into aggressive policy tightening to ...

Advice on ageing key to future success: CFPs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... demand will grow in the next five years, largely driven by those preparing for retirement (61%) and increased levels of consumer awareness of the value of financial advice (56%). The survey shows 69% of CFPs think retirement security will be the main ...

Employers unaware of YFYS, stapling: Study

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... Your Super reforms - including stapling - mean and how to comply, according to new research. The study, commissioned by consumer experience consultancy CSBA and Fund Executives Association Limited (FEAL) in partnership with Melbourne Business School ...