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APRA aims to bolster financial crisis response

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... impact on the community and the financial system." Lonsdale added that APRA-regulated entities have made substantial improvements in contingency planning over recent years. "However there remain large gaps in capabilities between entities and across ...

Final Royal Commission reforms to be tabled, YFYS review begins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... been effective at encouraging members to consider, and switch to, alternative products. It's also asking whether improvements are needed on this front, and whether the consequences have been effective in forcing trustees to take action and improve ...

Four MySuper products fail for second time: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... Instead funds have been forced to face reality and act in their members best interests by merging or finding other improvements like reducing fees," he said.

LOGOS partners with global logistics provider

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
... provided by MLP is unmatched and we look forward to benefiting from the significant cost-advantages associated with improvements to supply chain predictability and rail-to-port connectivity." Construction of the facility is scheduled for completion next ...

Government to review adviser professional standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... consult on its election promise to remove tertiary education requirements for experienced advisers and look to make improvements to the Code of Ethics. Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones announced the government will ...

AMP to return $1.1bn to shareholders

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... platform, increasing from $510 million to $758 million. AMP expects this to increase further as it works to bring more improvements to the platform, despite its NPAT dropping $30 million year on year. On the advice front, AMP said it expects advice NPAT ...

Federal Reserve delivers 0.75bp rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... down from the averages experienced earlier this year, but still robust, Powell said. There have also been widespread improvements in labour market conditions, including for workers on the lower ends of wage distribution as well as for African Americans ...

ASIC urges market to improve outage resilience

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
... they will provide during an outage," she explained. "ASX's consultation paper (the first of three) on its proposed improvements should help to address some of this uncertainty." ASIC's expectations on market outages coincide with other important changes ...

MLC Life enhances income product range

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
MLC Life Insurance has made improvements to its Income Assure and Income Assure+ products following adviser feedback. As a response to cost-of-living pressures, MLC has afforded customers the option to 'inflation proof' their cover to ensure ...

AMP North caps fees to expand adviser footprint

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2022
... of its offerings, including the recent launch of the North client app. "Advisers and clients can expect continual improvements to North as we aim to make it the leading platform proposition in the market," Maloney said.