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Soaring funeral costs require adviser airtime

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... shows Sydney as the most expensive city for a funeral service at $8357, followed by Perth ($7584), Brisbane ($7505) and Canberra ($7303). The national average is about $7449. Hacker said it does depend on the location in Sydney and the costs of different ...

ASIC not to blame for trust deficit: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... Australia's financial services industry. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in Canberra last Friday, Shipton was asked what responsibility ASIC takes for what has occurred in recent years across the industry. ...

ASIC admits AMP inaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... attempting to mislead the regulator. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in Canberra today, senior leaders at ASIC admitted they were not surprised by the revelations about AMP publicised via the Royal Commission. ...

Cbus aims to reduce costs through internalisation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
In a speech at the Master Builders Australia National Leaders Summit in Canberra, Cbus chief investment officer Kristian Fok said his fund aims to manage at least 35% of its assets internally by 2022, thereby reducing costs by about 18 basis points. ...

Unpaid super reaches $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... superannuation, a figure estimated to be about $5.9 billion as at 2015-16. Speaking to a Senate committee hearing in Canberra on Friday, ISA public affairs director Matt Linden said the group estimates about three million workers were short-changed compulsory ...

Super scorecard to shift consumer playing field

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... The Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes (CSRI) is introducing the scorecard at its 2018 leadership forum in Canberra today. The scorecard is based on an integration of five core capabilities: strategy and governance, understanding and engaging ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... votes - yours, mine and our dogs - as evident by the leakages galore ahead of tonight's Federal Budget "smoke out" in Canberra. Canberra will give back some of the wealth to we, the people. According to the The Guardian, Scott Morrison "noted that tax ...

Banking veteran retires

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... He's also worked as a stockbroker with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott said Hodges has made a significant contribution to ANZ over many years, working tirelessly ...

Evans & Partners vet launches new boutique, appoints distribution head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... significant strength of the business is the quality of our team of over 600 people across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and New York," Evans said. "Listing Evans Dixon on the ASX allows our clients to further partner with Evans Dixon ...

ASIC disqualifies two SMSF auditors

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... Ethics for Professional Accountants. He did so by auditing his own fund and a fund for which he was the trustee. The Canberra auditor, Robert Newham, breached the same requirements by auditing his own fund as well as funds where his staff had prepared ...