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BT Panorama aiming at advisers and SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015

BT Financial Group's Panorama wealth operating system has reached a tipping point where the infrastructure is built and over the next year several releases will come to market. At a media briefing yesterday, BTFG general manager of platforms and operations ...

Financial System Inquiry response cut-out-and-keep guide

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015

... encourages greater self-reliance. "The Government will develop legislation to enshrine the objective within the superannuation law, where it will serve as a guide to policy-makers, regulators, industry and the community about superannuation's fundamental ...

Property spruiker banned for providing unlawful advice

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015

... via SMSFs, or facilitate such an investment, and who do not have an Australian financial services licence are breaking the law. "It is important that advisers who deal with SMSFs are appropriately licenced."

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015

The government is determined to raise the professional standards of financial advisers, and it will do it by passing new legislation, it said in its response to the Financial System Inquiry. The government will develop legislative amendments that will ...

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015

The government has said it will grant the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) additional powers to effectively regulate the financial services sector. More than 10 months after the release of FSI chairman David Murray's final report ...

ASIC bans former Westpac-aligned adviser

ALEX BURKE | FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015

... those who provide financial services," said ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell. "ASIC will act to ensure advisers who flout the law and who disregard their legal obligations are removed from the financial services industry."

ISA calls out banks over fee structures

DARREN SNYDER | MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015

... very little or no transparency. "This should be cause for concern for fund members and an area ripe for disclosure reforms by law makers and regulatory authorities," Whiteley said. "Fees are being generated a number of ways by the vertically-integrated ...

California pension giants must divest from coal

MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015

US pension fund giant CalPERS and CalSTRS must divest their positions in coal companies after a new bill was signed into law in California last week. California governor Edmund Brown announced the signing of the bill on his website. The move is in line ...

Bond King Gross files $200m suit against PIMCO

MARK SMITH | FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015

Star bond manager Bill Gross is suing PIMCO, his former employer, for US$200 million ($275 million) for breach of contract and plotting to oust him from the firm he set up more than 40 years ago. The lawsuit filed in Orange County, California - where ...

CBA publicly welcomes former staff bans

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015

The Commonwealth Bank has publicly welcomed the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's (ASIC) decision to ban former CFPL financial planners, Sharnie Kent and Stuart Jamieson. In a press release issued by the bank it said it reported concerns ...

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Federal Court lifts Merhi's travel ban

KARREN VERGARA

Former financial adviser Ferras Merhi is now free to travel as the Federal Court lifted travel restraint orders imposed one year ago.

Hostplus delivers double-digit FY26 returns

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option delivered members 10.8% for the financial year 2025-26, while the Indexed Balanced option and the High Growth option returned members 11.06% and 12.61% respectively.

ASIC levy estimates jump 19% as regulator ramps up funding

VINNY VUCAGO

ASIC has lifted its estimated industry funding levy by almost 20% for 2025-26, with regulated entities expected to shoulder $400.5 million in regulatory costs as the corporate watchdog expands its supervision and enforcement activities.

GQG bleeds over US$7bn in FUM in June

MATTHEW WAI

Despite recording positive investment performance, GQG Partners observed a significant outflow, with net outflows of $4.62 billion recorded in the month of June, as FUM slipped to $225 billion at June end, compared to $235.5 billion in the month prior.

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