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IOOF breaches APRA licence conditions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
IOOF has breached one of APRA's licence conditions by failing to establish a dedicated superannuation trustee function by the 31 March 2019 deadline. IOOF was due to meet and comply with licence conditions imposed by APRA on the embattled wealth ...

One third of Australians trust robo-advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
New research reveals about 30% of Australians would trust a robot to offer them financial advice over a financial adviser. According to research commissioned by think tank Thinque, about one third of Australians would accept robo-advice as their faith ...

ASIC targets misleading member communication

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
ASIC warned it may take action on superannuation funds that send misleading communication to members about inappropriate fees and insurance premiums. The warning comes in light of the Protecting Your Super package (PYSP) reforms, which are due to take ...

Advisers loyal to XPLAN: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
XPLAN continues to be the top application of choice for financial advisers for the 12th consecutive year. This is according to the latest Investment Trends Planning Software Benchmarking Report, which showed XPLAN blitzed 29 of 34 categories. Other ...

Tribeca fund cops another departure, downgraded

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
Tribeca Investment Partners' $978 million Alpha Plus Fund has seen another departure from its investment team after long-standing portfolio manager Sean Fenton fled the coop earlier this month. Quantitative analyst Peter Moore resigned on April ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Grattan Institute has renewed calls to scrap the Superannuation Guarantee increase as its updated projections show most Australian workers will only cop - at worst - an 11% fall in their income after retiring. The think tank updated its retirement income ...

Industry welcomes tax cuts and surplus

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Personal tax cuts and the $7.1 billion estimated surplus announced were the main highlights of this year's Budget, Financial Standard 's latest straw poll shows. More than a third or 35% of participants highly favoured the tax cut proposals ...

Freedom to divest all operations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Freedom Insurance Group will offload its administration and financial advice businesses, and eventually cease operations. Freedom told the ASX this morning that it agreed in principle to sell its policy administration business to a third party for $5 ...

Superannuation bills on hold

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Four key pieces of legislation, including the protection of young superannuation members and low-balance accounts from default insurance premiums, have been put on ice. Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019, a highly anticipated ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Early New Year predictions the Australian dollar would depreciate by the end of 2019 have been given a boost by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 'World Economic Outlook, April' report where it shaved its world GDP growth forecast ...