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Trustees lack urgency, strategy on RIC: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
A joint regulatory review finds that superannuation funds are shrugging off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and are failing to integrate this mandate into their business plans. One year since the Retirement Income Covenant took ...

ASIC to host CHESS replacement roundtable

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
ASIC has agreed to host a roundtable to discuss the ASX's CHESS replacement project, attended by industry participants of the bourse's choosing. ASIC proposed the group be independently chaired and "advise on significant strategic clearing and ...

CFS settles super fees class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... not act in thousands of customers' best interests by continuing to charge existing members high fees under the commission arrangements. This is despite the charging of commissions on new superannuation accounts being banned in 2013 under the Future ...

ACCC publishes draft guidance on greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has outlined eight principles designed to combat greenwashing by businesses and protect consumers. The ACCC has published a draft guidance to address "concerning conduct" arising from a recent ...

US regulators launch investigation into OpenAI

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research firm that owns ChatGBT, to evaluate possible negligence and consumer harm. In a 20-page document sent to the Microsoft-backed AI firm, regulators demanded ...

CBA staff head to Fair Work over WFH policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
The Finance Sector Union will front the Fair Work Commission on behalf of Commonwealth Bank staff, fighting the banking giant's mandate that staff be in the office 50% of the time. At the end of May, CBA told staff that they would be required to work ...

Ownership changes spur upheaval in unit trust sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023
... investors pulling money out of active fund managers that were subject to structural changes since the Banking Royal Commission. Some of the investment managers with the largest negative net flows were spun out of the large wealth managers owned by Australia's ...

Ag sector boosts Australia's productivity

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
A new report from the Productivity Commission finds that the agriculture sector is turbocharging the Australian economy well ahead of other industries, thanks to the favourable weather conditions of recent years. The newly released Productivity Commission ...

Equipsuper adds board director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... the mid-market infrastructure firm's top dealmakers. Even earlier, he worked for the Insurance and Superannuation Commission, now APRA. Equipsuper chair Danny Casey welcomed Widdup to the board. "Julian brings a wealth of experience across many large ...

Adviser demand up as industry turns corner: Recruiter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... coming from the employers who want to re-adopt the associate adviser role, which was popular prior to the Hayne Royal Commission and FASEA regulations. "We see this client shift as a response to increase capacity to absorb the referrals and new client ...