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Advice reforms draft laws consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
... a client enters or renews an ongoing fee arrangement and authorise ongoing advice fees to be deducted from a financial product. The bill proposes that advisers should make Financial Services Guides (FSG) easier to provide to retail clients. They can ...

GST rebate changes worsens cost of advice: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
... approach." "Noting the transitional period should be extended beyond June 30 to provide certainty and clarity, as both product issuers and financial advisers scramble to comply with this unexpected change and to identify, notify and engage with impacted ...

Equip Super to introduce retirement specialists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
Equip Super is expanding its retirement support services, adding retirement support specialists for members as well as providing help to non-members. The super fund said it will be establishing a dedicated retirement centre and implementing a fund-wide ...

Advisers shoulder massive wealth transfer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
Financial advisers shoulder much of the responsibility in helping facilitate the massive intergenerational wealth transfer that has blown out to nearly $5 trillion, according to new estimates, as recipients are largely financial illiterate and ill-prepared ...

BlackRock to launch new ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... with a management fee of 0.25%. BlackRock said the launch of EMXC furthers its commitment to expand its local iShares product suite, providing Australian advisers and investors with a "granular building block" for more precise emerging markets allocations. ...

Macquarie AM bags top manager gong

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... categories for the Index/Enhanced and Small Caps categories respectively. U Ethical's Australian Equities Trust - Wholesale product won the Australian Equities (Active Core) and ESG (Australian Equities) categories. Rainmaker Information conducted ...

AMP North launches new tool

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... enhance their strategic advice for clients. "Adviser feedback is so critical to the way in which we continue to invest in product enhancements and functionality, which is why we have launched North Interactive, a game-changer in helping more advisers ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
Active Super has been found guilty of misleading the public with false claims about its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials. The profit-to-member fund, which is set to merge with Vision Super in March 2025, made claims on its website ...

Australian Unity lashed by ASIC over TMD questionnaire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... responses to fit into the target market. Under the orders, Australian Unity and other distributors of the fund cannot provide product disclosure statements for or provide general advice to retail clients about the fund for 21 days, unless the orders ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of XTrade

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... adequate arrangements for the management of conflicts of interest, failed to take reasonable steps to ensure its retail product distribution was consistent with its target market determination, and did not do all things necessary to ensure that financial ...