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How to ensure clients will pay higher fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... advisers will face during what he referred to as a transition phase. The banning of agreed value income protection from 1 April 2020, banning of grandfathered commissions from 31 December 2020, new annual renewal obligation starting this year and the ...

Evans Dixon slashes staff

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... shareholders a 3 cents per share. An interim dividend of 2.5 cents per share will be paid to eligible shareholders on 14 April 2020. Late last year, Evans Dixon announced it had closed its Dixon Projects business in Australia, cut 100 jobs and scaled ...

Ethical super fund cuts fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... benefits. Australian Ethical will drop the percentage-based administration fee it charges to members from 0.41% to 0.29% p.a. in April. Members will still be required to pay Australian Ethical's fixed $97 annual administration fee in addition to the ...

IOOF faces new class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... joining a potential class action." This comes after Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan filed a class action against IOOF in April 2019. That action was a direct response to evidence given at the Royal Commission and legal proceedings brought by APRA against ...

Freedom Insurance appoints liquidators

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... Office of State Revenue regarding historic payroll liabilities (where it believes it has answered all of the questions). Last April, Freedom said it planned to eventually cease operating and would offload its administration and financial advice businesses. ...

Former AMP, Synchron adviser charged

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... Services, where he worked for just over two years before beginning an almost four year stint at Synchron, which ended in April 2018. If found guilty, the charges carry a maximum penalty of between 10 to 14 years imprisonment, depending on when the offences ...

GAM profits fall 92%, management team overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... accountable and committed," Sanderson said. The manager will also trim its group management board (GMB), dropping three. From April 1, the GMB will consist of Sanderson, group chief financial officer Richard McNamara, group chief risk officer Elmar Zumbuehl ...

OneVue recoups $4.36m from Sargon

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... managing director Connie Mckeage said. Madison was one of Sargon's many acquisitions in recent years. Sargon bought it in April 2018 from PHAROS Financial Group and had plans to rebrand it as Sargon Adviser Services in March this year. The sale price ...

Zenith enters superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... transaction will take place by way of an asset sale for a $12 million consideration and is expected to complete by this April.

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... effective 1 October 2019. Note that this was originally scheduled to take effect in October 2015 before being postponed to April 2017 before being deferred to October 2019. Seven months before, I opined that " Japan should raise taxes another day ". ...