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'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... allowing as much as $20,000 to be taken from a member's account before a red flag is raised. Speaking to Financial Standard, Constant said that $20,000 fee cap is perhaps the starkest finding of all. "If you're sitting at a trustee board and ...

APRA 'continuing to monitor' UniSuper outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... situation which arose when the fund's private cloud was inadvertently deleted. In a brief statement to Financial Standard, APRA said it is "aware of the system outage affecting services and is continuing to monitor the situation." It also cited a ...

Advisers must unite for major reforms: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... breadth of associations coming together to provide a unified voice on the first tranche of the reforms," she told Financial Standard. "I think it's a meaningful and important approach to take to this change, because it means that we can be a unified ...

Litigation funder disputes AMP BOLR settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
... on behalf of applicants. The settlement approval hearing is set to commence on August 29. In a statement to Financial Standard, an AMP spokesperson said: "AMP Financial Planning is ready to pay the class action's agreed settlement sum to Corrs in accordance ...

ASIC clamps down on advisers, trustees cold calling

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... stay away from referral arrangements made with cold-calling businesses using such tactics. ASIC confirmed to Financial Standard that it identified a small subset of advisers and licensees who have referral arrangements with cold-callers who use high-pressure ...

Fidelity to roll out more active ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
... number of its managed funds to enable listing of a class of units on either the ASX or Cboe. In a statement to Financial Standard, Fidelity International Australia managing director Lawrence Hanson confirmed it is looking to launch several strategies ...

UniSuper battles major system outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
... said the issue originated from a third-party provider and is not the result of a breach. In a statement to Financial Standard, UniSuper confirmed the third-party provider is Google Cloud. "Google Cloud has confirmed that the disruption is an isolated ...

Mercer rolls out new corporate super plan

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... plan for employers of all sizes called Mercer Business Super. Mercer Super chief executive Tim Barber told Financial Standard that historically, Mercer Super Trust's "bread and butter" has been serving large corporates with sometimes complex, bespoke ...

Rainmaker Information names research head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... industry. "I'm also looking forward to leveraging the global capability of ISS Market Intelligence." Note: Financial Standard, like Rainmaker Information, is owned by ISS STOXX.

Australian Retirement Trust applies new investment exclusion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... 10% or more of their total revenues from mining thermal coal or the sale of it to third parties. Speaking to Financial Standard, ART said the super fund was committed to achieving a net zero greenhouse gas emissions investment portfolio by 2050. "Australian ...
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