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AMP profits nose dive, dividends hit

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... These include the costs arising from the Royal Commission response, portfolio review, increased investment in risk, governance and controls, and advice remediation," AMP said in a statement. It has now provisioned $200 million for advice remediation ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... process. Given the final report of the Royal Commission is due on February 1, some of the recommendations around advice, governance and the role of regulators will need to be considered in the context of these findings, Darwin added. Election matters ...

Australian Ethical divests IOOF

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... Australian Ethical head of ethics research Stuart Palmer said the decision was driven by IOOF's failure to put governance and conflicts management arrangements into place to safeguard the interests of superannuation members over a long period. "As ...

PSP ramps up Aussie agriculture investment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... committed to best practices in the areas of employee health and safety, the environment, community engagement and corporate governance. "We have full confidence in BFB's management team and its employees to continue to grow this incredible farming ...

ANZ, IOOF revise wealth sale agreement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... based on concerns the regulator first raised in 2015 in regards to IOOF and its entities' organisational structure, governance and conflicts management frameworks. An independent report from EY suggesting IOOF Investment Management Limited breached ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... close soon. The buyer is Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a company speciaising in responsible investment and governance solutions. The transaction's value was not revealed. Strategic Insight tracks 13.5 million individual data points for a ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... performance, it also listed other metrics that would be measured. Consideration of a fund's track record on fees, governance and innovations, and how well its group insurance offering caters to new members of all occupations would also be required ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... of the big banks," the ACTU said. It added the performance of not-for-profit industry funds was a testament to their governance structure and said any attempt to dismantle such a "world-class" model would inevitably damage the performance of those funds. ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... have intervened in the market addressing areas such as fee disclosure and transparency requirements, and by lifting governance standards, the PC argues that millions of Australians have been poorly served and penalized by high fees or foregone savings. ...

Productivity Commission shakes up default superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... an independent expert panel and assess the list every four years based on investment strategy and performance, fees, governance and innovation default insurance arrangements. The ATO would implement the new default model by providing an online service ...