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AFSL reference checking protocols required

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
Financial advice licensees are not doing enough to communicate the background of advisers. As such, compliance with the Australian Banking Association's reference checking protocols should be mandatory for all advice licensees, the Royal Commission ...

Harder for insurers to dodge claims

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
Insurers will find it tougher to dodge paying out claims if the Royal Commission's recommendation to amend insurance law is enacted. At the round six hearings of the Royal Commission, it was revealed that CommInsure used outdated medical definitions ...

Misconduct must end: Frydenberg

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
The banking, superannuation and financial services Royal Commission has made 76 recommendations to address industry misconduct and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Federal Government will act on each of them. The Treasurer has put the blame of industry ...

Hayne recommends new regulatory overseer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
The Royal Commission final report recommends the roles of ASIC and APRA be adjusted when it comes to superannuation oversight. A new independent body will also oversee the regulators. Releasing his final report into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation ...

Former ACCC chair will lead APRA capability review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
The Federal Government has appointed a former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman to lead a capability review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Responding to the Royal Commission's final report into Misconduct ...

ASIC terminates managed accounts provider AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of managed accounts provider Jade Capital Partners and banned one of its directors. An ASIC investigation of Sydney-based Jade Capital, a managed discretionary account provider specialising in trading services and advice ...

Industry Super Australia attacks Future Fund concept

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
The peak body for industry superannuation suggests defaulting workers' retirement savings into the Future Fund would be a costly mistake. According to Industry Super Australia, workers would be about $124,000 worse off if their superannuation was ...

Roll-it Super expands offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
Roll-it Super has partnered with Moneytree to provide customers better control of their finances. Personal finance management app Moneytree will provide API infrastructure to enable Roll-it Super users to aggregate all financial accounts securely. Roll-it ...

Avenir eyes insto investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Avenir Capital is looking to win institutional investors for its 'private equity mindset' approach to equities, after previously running capital raised mostly by word-of-mouth. The fund invests in 18 international stocks, with a longer-term ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
Parametric have taken the final Productivity Commission report into superannuation to task in its latest research report. According to the firm, the PC missed an opportunity to highlight how super members retiring on after-tax returns are penalised ...