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Super fund in-houses advice service

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... superannuation Richard Millington. These changes will be complemented by a new phone-based service team to aid and information to small-and-medium-sized employers, Potts said. "There have been significant changes to superannuation and insurance in the ...

Advisers to go forth with claims handling

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... provides an exemption for individually licensed advisers and authorised representatives, which should meet the needs of small advice firms. "Whilst the regulation does not specifically refer to staff members of financial advice practices playing a role ...

Institutional mandates shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
Local institutional investors appointed 313 mandates totaling $43 billion in 2020, down from $51 billion the year before, according to Rainmaker's latest Mandate Chaser report. State Street was the biggest winner in institutional mandates in 2020 ...

Chief economist: Of capital gains taxes, COVID-19 and climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
It's bad news day on Wall Street overnight with all four its benchmark equity market indices flashing red. The S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq dropped by 0.9% each, while the Russell 2000 had a smaller decline of 0.3%. The financial literati were ...

Perennial establishes ESG boutique

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... Since its inception in 2018, the Perennial Better Future Trust has returned 13.3% per annum. It has outperformed the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index by 6.2% per annum and the ASX 300 Accumulation Index by 5.6% per annum since inception to ...

Commissions likely to stay: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
The coalition has hinted that it will not eradicate commissions paid on life insurance products, acknowledging that financial advisers' bottom line has struggled since the introduction of the Life Insurance Framework reforms. While the government's ...

Afterpay reveals US plans, economic impact

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... According to the report, Afterpay delivered $3 billion in net benefits to 48,000 merchants, including $1.3 billion to 38,000 small and medium-sized businesses. Additionally, $510 million of this went to regional businesses and 63,000 jobs were directly ...

Challenger to change annuity pricing

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... corresponding period's $979 million. Majority of the annuities sales came from domestic fixed-term sales ($1.39 billion) with small contributions from domestic lifetime ($107 million) and Japan MS Primary sales ($79 million). Sales of other products ...

Delay breach reporting law: AFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... Financial Advisers wants to defer the proposed self-reporting of breaches regime amid concerns it will be impossible for small financial advice firms to comply with. The AFA outlined its concerns about Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's recommendation ...

Andrew Thorburn joins IIG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... NAB chair Ken Henry resigned in early 2019 after the fallout from Royal Commission hearings. Five-year-old IIG is owned by Small Giants, the family office of Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman. Their other investments include Future Super and the magazine ...