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Unclaimed money hits $1.1bn: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... from shares and other investments people have not collected from companies, usually from the result of a takeover. ASIC is urging Australians to search on its MoneySmart website to see if they are the rightful owners. It also pays tax-free interest on ...

Investment management industry needs overhaul: CFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
The CFA Institute believes the investment management industry is at a critical inflection point, urging leaders to transform business models and adopt new skills or else risk future success. Investment managers must also do more to build trust with ...

Praemium details former chief executive's sacking

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... underperforming", and it underscored the board's decision to terminate his employment. Camm, together with the board of directors, is urging shareholders to vote against Ohanessian's attempt to oust the existing board and replace it with his own "handpicked" ...

ASIC releases RE compliance obligations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission is urging responsible entities to maintain adequate risk management systems to avoid any adverse consequences for investors. ASIC's recently released regulatory guide - RG 259 Risk Management systems ...

Collective power: What's next for profit-to-member funds?

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... Domino's Pizza and Archer Capital-owned Aerocare, two companies that recently made headlines for allegedly exploiting workers, urging industry super to collectively stamp out such behaviour. "Imagine if we all together took them to task and said: 'what ...

Forward thinking must underpin advice: Vanguard

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... particular, Davis noted the rise in the populist belief that globalism was the cause of a global decrease in manufacturing, urging advisers to realise that the strong acceleration of technological change is the true underlining cause. According to Vanguard ...

Super doesn't need tender system: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is urging the Productivity Commission to reject the consideration of adopting a Chilean-style tender process for default super in Australia. ASFA's latest research paper says adopting the Chilean ...

AIST wants higher concessional cap for older workers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees is urging the federal government to retain the $35,000 concessional cap for older workers. As the AIST finalises its submission to the second tranche of superannuation reforms it argues the existing ...

Current super objective "un-Australian"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... superannuation that restricts its purpose to merely substitute or supplement the age pension. The super fund representative body is urging people to take interest in the federal government's consultation on super's objective because it will affect them ...

AMP gets court date for China fund appeal

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... Medicine. Despite LIM Advisors' wind-up proposal - made on the basis that AGF is "not fit for purpose" - AMP Capital is urging unitholders to keep the fund open. AMP Capital Funds Management chair Adam Tindall said "AGF remains one of the very few ways ...