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HESTA pushes for expediated advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... changing retirement dates, might affect their retirement outcomes. Also, almost half of the members using Future Planner request further in-person advice. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the fund's members, who are often shift workers and balancing ...

Australians selling assets over seeking help: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... financial hardship assistance," ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland said. "Customers in hardship are entitled under the law to request assistance. These findings should be top of mind for lenders when supporting Australians in financial hardship." Kirkland ...

Magellan advances MGF conversion to open class

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
Magellan Asset Management will go ahead with converting its Global Fund (ASX: MGF) into an open class structure. As the fund's responsible entity, Magellan Asset Management has advanced the conversion process since it was flagged in October of last ...

Crescent Capital sells down ClearView stake

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
ClearView Wealth has alerted investors that private equity investor Crescent Capital Partners intends to sell millions of shares in the company. Crescent said it would sell in aggregate more than 73 million fully paid ordinary shares to a range of sophisticated ...

UniSuper restores online services, app

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
UniSuper's systems are back online, after close to two weeks of disruption following the deletion of its private cloud. In an update today, UniSuper chief executive Peter Chun said online services across the fund's website and app have been ...

Brisbane financial adviser has assets frozen

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
ASIC has instigated "urgent proceedings" in the Federal Court against Brisbane financial adviser Sunny Prakash and his many associated companies. The corporate regulator is investigating Prakash and his "related companies" - Principal Financial Services ...

AFCA finds more Dixon Advisory victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) added 544 more Dixon Advisory-specific victims to total 2492 complaints at the end of April, which will further exacerbate the costs and levy financial advisers must pay. The Financial Advice Association ...

UniSuper outage continues, no cause identified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
The super fund plans to begin restoring services later this week, though chief executive Peter Chun has told members the root cause of the outage remains unknown. UniSuper's systems, including its app, have been down for about a week now, with members ...

UniSuper battles major system outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
UniSuper is working to resolve an ongoing system outage impacting the entire business, assuring disgruntled members it is not the result of a data breach. The $135 billion super fund's online systems have been disrupted this week, with its 665,000 ...

Sequoia chief's job at stake in upcoming EGM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
... the decision to take such a drastic step to remove a managing director seemed unusual. Crole added that the shareholders request was accompanied by a document that outlined at best vague intentions for the changes they want to make if the resolutions ...