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Adviser slapped with four-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
Another former Meritum Financial Group and InterPrac Financial Planning adviser has copped a ban from the corporate regulator. From 1 April 2021, ASIC banned Hobart-based Hannah Jennings from providing financial services for four years for failing to ...

Concern for consumers ahead of YFYS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
After the Your Future, Your Super reforms were passed in the House of Representatives lawyers have expressed concern consumers may not understand the impact of the changes. Law firm Slater and Gordon warned that Australians could end up with less insurance ...

QSuper makes changes ahead of merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
Members of $100 billion government fund QSuper have been notified of a few changes ahead of its merger with Sunsuper. After QSuper and Sunsuper executed a Heads of Agreement, confirming their intention to merge and create a $200 billion super fund in ...

Disability income faces reckoning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
The former chief executive of TAL has slammed life insurers' ineptitude in managing disability income products, invoking the industry to come together and find a solution by the end of the year. Speaking at the 2021 Actuaries Summit on Wednesday ...

APRA releases draft climate change guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... now and into the future," and that the board should be able to provide evidence of its ongoing oversight of risks that they deem to be material. APRA has developed CPG 229 in response to requests from industry for greater clarity of regulatory expectations ...

Pandemic boosts financial sector's engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
Financial services employees have never been more engaged in their roles since the global pandemic disrupted the workforce, a new study shows. The global workplace study by ADP, a provider of human resource solutions, found that the shift from office-based ...

Defined benefit fund in SFT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
A defined benefit fund with $77 million in funds under management is completing a successor fund transfer to a Mercer subplan. Factory Mutual Insurance Company Superannuation (FMIC) members and assets will be transferred from the existing fund to a ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... recent back up in bond yields due to rising inflation expectations. This is because most major central banks, led by the Fed, deem near-term inflationary pressures only transitory while at the same time emphasising their commitment towards providing ...

Mercer calls for delay to super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
Appearing before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee this morning, Mercer implored the government to consider a delay to the implementation of the super fund stapling mechanism slated to come into effect from July 1. In opening, Mercer senior ...

Northern Trust launches green strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
Northern Trust Asset Management has established a sustainable world green transition index strategy for Australian and New Zealand investors, as it builds out its sustainable investment offering. The NT World Green Transition Index fund is founded on ...