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AustralianSuper to decrease premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
Members of the nation's largest superannuation fund will soon see the cost of their death and TPD cover drop. About 97% of AustralianSuper's insured members will receive a premium reduction across death, total and permanent disability, and some income ...

Advice group chief fakes exam result, banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
The chief executive of a North Sydney financial advice group is permanently banned by ASIC for faking his Financial Adviser Exam results. In December 2021, Bluepoint Consulting chief executive and co-founder Todd Karamian altered the result on his Financial ...

Bloomberg pays US$5m in SEC charges

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
The finance juggernaut has agreed to fork out US$5 million in penalties to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following charges related to its fixed income valuations. The SEC alleged that Bloomberg Finance LP misled disclosures relating to ...

Berkshire Hathaway, IAG restructure agreement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
Berkshire Hathaway has renewed its whole of account quota share (WAQS) agreement with Insurance Australia Group (IAG) but ceased its strategic relationship and equity ownership. The renewed terms with National Indemnity Company (NICO), a subsidiary ...

Latest adviser exams see 57% pass rate

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
Just over half of the candidates who sat the November exam passed, revealed ASIC. ASIC released the 19th cycle Financial Advisers Exam results and said, of the 282 candidates who sat the test, only 161 (57%) were approved. It explained 57% sat the test ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is paying US$4 million to settle charges brought by the US regulator over failures involving ESG research used to select investments. It comes as the US government reverses limitations placed on some pension funds in relation ...

Forrests invest in post-war, green Ukraine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
Andrew and Nicola Forrest's investment firm has committed nearly $750 million to a fund dedicated to rebuilding post-war Ukraine's infrastructure with green and digital assets. Forrest and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the investment ...

ASIC accepts EU firm from advice firm

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
ASIC has accepted a court enforceable undertaking from financial advice firm Lasarith and its sole director and responsible manager Adam Smith. Lasarith, trading as Succession Matters, will cease operating its financial services business under its AFSL ...

Central banks to tighten on all sides: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
All eyes are on the Fed as it's set for another fourth straight 75bp hike, and central banks are taking a "whatever it takes" approach to pushing inflation back down to their targets, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). The European ...

ASIC dishes out permanent ban to 'lifestyle' adviser

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
A former Dover and Interprac financial adviser who was found to be unfit to operate in the industry in any capacity was permanently banned by the regulator. ASIC said James Carlos Reynolds purported to offer 'lifestyle' financial advice as sole director ...