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OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

FASEA scraps three-month rule

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is introducing a relief that will allow financial advisers to sit the November examination regardless of their last sitting. FASEA is proposing to relax the three-month registration requirement in ...

ASIC review of ESG products underway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
The corporate regulator has confirmed it is undertaking a review of ESG funds, analysing whether they're as 'green' as they claim to be. Writing on the aims of the review, ASIC commissioner Cathie Armour said there is growing anxiety as to the risks ...

FSC launches DDO templates

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and 60 of its members have worked together to launch two products ahead of the design and distribution obligations (DDO) regime. The FSC and members from life insurance, funds management and superannuation have collaborated ...

AFA slams new SOA measures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has hit back at ASIC and APRA for causing "confusion" and "interfering" with financial advice as they look to introduce new changes to Statements of Advice. The association points to the regulators' joint letter ...

FYG expands network

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
Tasmania-based FYG Planners has added a Victorian financial advice firm to its stable. Based in Chadstone, Prosperity Planners now operates under licensee FYG. Christopher Bailey, co-founder and financial planner, set up Prosperity in May and prior ...

How likely is a super fund to fail YFYS test?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
The average super fund has a 10-15% chance of failing the Your Future, Your Super performance test in any given eight-year period, but some may need to dive a little deeper to determine how at-risk they are, Willis Towers Watson says. Following analysis ...

Class to dump MDA investment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
The SMSF technology platform has decided to either convert or redeem its $3.1 million investment in Philo Capital Advisers after concluding it is not in the best interest of its shareholders. Class previously made the investment prior to the introduction ...

BT Super for Life ups insurance premiums

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
BT Super for Life will increase the cost of its standard life insurance cover by 13.1% from August 1. The standard cover includes death and TPD. As an example, a 34-year-old male member of BT Super for Life previously paid $11.41 each month for one ...

QSuper, IFM bid for Sydney Airport

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
A consortium made up of QSuper, IFM Investors and Global Infrastructure Management has announced a takeover bid for Sydney Airport. The unsolicited, indicative, conditional and non-binding proposal is offering $8.25 per share which equates to a 42% ...