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Retail funds blitz personal-balanced options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
Retail superannuation funds delivered the best performance in the personal-balanced category in Rainmaker's latest analysis of MySuper funds. Wholesale personal super product - FirstChoice Wholesale Multi-Index Growth - returned 23.7% per annum ...

Female board participation rises: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
The number of women holding board positions in ASX 200 companies has increased but there is still a way to go with women holding chair roles, new research shows. The latest data from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) revealed women ...

Westpac in fresh $87m remediation program

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
The failure of Westpac's former advisers to pass on corporate actions to clients for more than a decade will see the big bank pay a hefty bill. The $87 million that will be remediated affects 32,000 customer accounts, ASIC announced this morning ...

Homebuyer schemes speed up saving time

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
As values soar, Australians are entering the property market up to five years sooner due to government homebuyer schemes, research shows. Commonwealth Bank data shows customers have bought property on an average of 4.78 years faster using the First ...

ASIC looks to tighten crypto ETP oversight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
ASIC is consulting on how exchange-traded products investing in cryptoassets can meet existing regulatory expectations, with the regulator particularly interested in identifying suitable cryptoassets for such products and ensuring good practice in terms ...

EOFY tips for advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
Financial advisers should keep in mind some valuable tax breaks for their businesses as the 2021 financial year comes to a close. H&R Block director of tax communications Mark Chapman told Financial Standard temporary full expensing (TLE) is one tax ...

ASIC cancels BBY licence

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
The corporate regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licence held by stockbroker BBY Limited, after suspending it in May 2015 for three years. BBY's AFSL will go until 31 March 2022 only for the purposes of giving clients access to ...

Chief economist update: Delta variant infects Australian economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... labour market stats indicate that economic growth will continue to progress going forward. Employment increased by 115,200 in May - way above consensus expectations for a 30,000 gain and more than offsetting the 30,600 lost in the previous month and ...

UK pension funds pushed to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The UK pension sector is experiencing similar pressure to that being felt by Australia's super funds, with the pensions regulator asking defined contribution (DC) funds with less than £5 billion in assets being urged to merge. In September last ...

Charter Hall exec to chair NHFIC board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation has appointed Charter Hall's Adrian Harrington as its chair, and two other members in a board renewal. The government agency, which lets private companies lend to social and affordable housing ...