Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1321 - 1330 of 7380 results for "System"

IFM Investors buys biogas developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
... are effectively fugitive emissions that are being captured. You have the double benefit of taking the methane out of the system and not introducing CO2 by burning CO2 emissions. "We looked at a range of biogas opportunities, and this one stood out as ...

APRA outlines 2023 super priorities

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023
... Choice Heatmaps. It will publish the heatmap, which is being updated using data submitted through the new APRA Connect system, for the first time in early 2023. Working alongside ASIC, APRA said it also endeavours to influence improved retirement outcomes ...

Regulation should be balanced: Levy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... Advice Review (QAR). At an event hosted by PritchittBland, Levy said almost all stakeholders are unhappy with the current system; financial advisers feeling burdened by excessive regulation, leading them to increase fees or leave the profession. Banks ...

Cold calling advice firms called out

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is calling on the government to extend anti-hawking laws to combat financial advice firms using third parties to solicit business through cold calling. Unsolicited calls to consumers about superannuation ...

Insignia saves thousands of hours with AI

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
Implementing an artificial intelligence solution has saved Insignia Financial tens of thousands of working hours, it says. The financial services company rolled out its first digital worker called Optimus in 2019 and has since steadily increased its ...

Capital Group kicks off succession plan

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
... earlier its global head of trading. Meanwhile, Romo will work to ensure that Capital Group's investment process, The Capital System, operates at its highest level. As chair of Capital Group, he will also partner with the other leaders in all aspects ...

Superannuation objective: Australians want retirement income

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
... of living in retirement. FSC chief executive Blake Briggs said Australians share a strong belief that the superannuation system should be designed with a singular focus on their retirement. "Despite there not being a legislated objective of superannuation ...

Australians lack confidence in retirement: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2023
... Global Advisors (SSGA) Retirement Reality report has revealed a widespread lack of confidence in Australia's retirement system. Despite recent changes to the Australian retirement system, including the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) reforms, aggressive ...

Global X to launch Covered Call ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2023
Global X will soon roll out the local market's first fully systematic, index tracking covered call products. To be launched on the ASX, the three new strategies are intended to provide investors with income at a time when both equity and bond markets ...

Consultation opens on NALI amendments

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... proposals and said the Albanese government will always look for ways to strengthen Australia's world-class superannuation system. "Robust, proportionate integrity measures are an important part of maintaining confidence and providing clarity to trustees," ...