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Advice associations slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... themselves up as education providers, charging advisers thousands more dollars for FASEA courses" as well as "Code of Conduct police to prosecute advisers rather than support or defend them". "Advisers feel the FPA and AFA have achieved nothing, are ...

Major super funds caught in fraud scandal

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... Super and Club Plus. The brokers involved have been reported to be CMC Markets, IG Markets and CommSec. Australian Federal Police and ASIC conducted investigations into the syndicate's activities for over a year. Working as part of a syndicate, ASIC ...

Perth adviser to face court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... nearly $1 million from clients and transferred it to his online gambling accounts, according to the Western Australian Police Force (WAPF). The 38-year old adviser, who was not named but identified as a Yanchep resident, worked at Platinum Perpetual ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... resignation; (3) retraction of the government's characterisation of the violent clashes between protesters and the police as "riots"; (4), a full independent inquiry into police responses and; (5) arrested protesters are unconditionally freed. Months ...

Super fund overhauls group insurance cover

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... Benefit periods for all income protection will change from three years to two years. Members in defined benefit, state or police accounts will also be affected by the changes if they leave their jobs. Queensland Government employees for example, will ...

NZ$5 trillion investor group supports Christchurch Call

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... Christchurch attack. The new laws impose heavy fines, make reporting "violent and abhorrent content" to the Australian Federal Police mandatory and could see social media executives face jail time. The investor group that was started by NZ Super after ...

Call for super funds to divest gambling interests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... their super funds to invest in responsible companies and 90% of investors in general believe that fund managers should "police" corporate behaviour. Palmer points to this as evidence there is public will for super funds to be more transparent about their ...

Former NAB adviser charged

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... December, 2016 after a routine security process identified serious compliance concerns. We reported the events to the NSW police, notified ASIC and have fully cooperated with their investigation," the group said.

NZ Super responds to Australian social media laws

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... abhorrent violent material. They also state that social media platforms internationally must notify the Australian Federal Police if they become aware of any abhorrent violent material on their platform and failure to do this will be punishable fines ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
It appeared that not only us, Australians all, were celebrating Australia Day on January 26. Our American brethren were too... but for a different reason. The Dow rose by 0.7% on the day (January 25 in New York); the S&P 500 increased 0.8% and the Nasdaq ...