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Industry fund ups admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
An $18 billion superannuation fund is increasing its administration fees and adding to its cash option menu from July 1. CareSuper will stop passing on tax benefits to members via the fixed component of the admin fee and the percentage-based portion ...

Macquarie Securities slapped with $126k fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Macquarie Securities Australia (MSA) has copped a $126,000 fine for breaching market integrity rules, making this its fifth infringement in the last six years. The Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) found that MSA failed to follow a client's instruction ...

Rice Warner prepares to shut up shop

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
Actuarial firm Rice Warner is in the final stages of closing down as its team heads to Deloitte. At the end of April 2021, Rice Warner will officially cease trading and its consulting staff will all transfer to Deloitte. Rice Warner was founded by Michael ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
A global quant-driven fund manager that won a mandate with Macquarie four years ago to oversee its liquid alternative strategy has folded. Swedish fund manager Informed Portfolio Management (IPM), which at its peak had about $6 billion (SEK40bn) of ...

Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
The financial adviser population has reverted to the pre-financial services Royal Commission days, ending at 20,667 in the first quarter of 2021. Rainmaker analysis of ASIC's Financial Adviser Register found that the total number of financial advisers ...

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 ...

Commissions likely to stay: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
The coalition has hinted that it will not eradicate commissions paid on life insurance products, acknowledging that financial advisers' bottom line has struggled since the introduction of the Life Insurance Framework reforms. While the government's ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The music has stopped, should we cease dancing? Two consecutive days of losses on Wall Street is a very long time in financial markets so much so that "pundits struggle to explain stocks stumble", according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR). ...

Business registration to be updated

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
The government has moved forward with the Modernising Business Registers (MBR) program with a singular registry platform, eliminating seven registry interactions. Minister for superannuation, financial services and the digital economy, minister for ...

Hostplus wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
Hostplus has been chosen as successor fund for about $210 million of member assets from AUSfund, as the latter closes its doors after 33 years. AUSfund, which was set up as a fund for unclaimed or dormant superannuation funds, is owned by an Industry ...