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Multi-asset strategies key in COVID-19 crisis: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... had to speed up our own process." Instead of reviewing economic conditions on a six-month basis, the firm has moved to review them daily. As investors rush to generate liquidity, traditionally reliable relationships between growth and defensive assets ...

SMSF auditors come under fire

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... compliance with financial reporting requirements. As part of the conditions, ASIC has ordered Cuthbertson to undertake a peer review process for his audits, complete further study (including ethics and audit) and pass a SMSF competency exam. Heasman ...

Dealer group AFSL in limbo

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... representatives, nor did it have the adequate resources to do so. Three days later, on February 15, the firm applied for a review of the regulator's decision. According to Rainmaker data, the dealer group is home to about 84 advisers. Just last year ...

Ethical fund manager wears $520m hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
The market impact of COVID-19 hit Australian Ethical to the tune of half a billion dollars in the first quarter, but strong inflows have helped limit the damage. The ethical wealth manager closed the first quarter on March 31 with $3.59 billion in funds ...

Ironbark fund rating under review

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
A $180 million multi-manager alternatives fund from Ironbark has been put under review at Morningstar as the ratings house waits for clarity on March quarter performance. The Ironbark LHP Diversified Investments invests in 25 to 50 sub-managers of alternative ...

Adequacy argument headlines online CMSF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... offered panel members the chance to debate the adequacy of the superannuation system just before the retirement income review is scheduled to release its final report, in June. Per Capita's Emma Dawson said arguments about the relationship between super ...

Oil tanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... standstill and factories in lockdown, the planet is drowning in oil and nowhere to store them. Just as the Australian Financial Review (AFR) reports, "With demand down 30 per cent worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the main US storage hub ...

Should unused services on AFSLs be subject to ASIC levy?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
An AFSL holder asked the court to review its entreaty to ASIC to waive industry funding levy for services that it was licensed to offer but did not. Polymath Investors acquired an Australian Financial Services Licence in 2010 to work with wholesale ...

Liquid and ready: Cbus

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Cbus chief executive David Atkin says his $56 billion industry super fund is in a strong liquidity position to deal with the early super release scheme. And this was the case even prior to the government's Jobseeker payment announcement, he said. "Cbus ...

New ASIC guidance on active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
ASIC has provided additional guidance on non-transparent active ETFs, which were subject to a review last year. ASIC is asking ETF issuers only rely on publicly available information or a reference price as the input for market making quotes. It has ...