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Rest increases admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Members of the $54 billion industry super fund will see their administration fees go up next month and will no longer see the benefit of tax deductions related to insurance premiums. Rest has notified members their admin fees will rise from November ...

Daniel Crennan resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
ASIC deputy chair Daniel Crennan has resigned following revelations his remuneration exceeded the regulator's salary cap. Senator Mathias Cormann tabled a statement from Crennan during Senate Estimates this morning at the request of Treasury. "In ...

ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
ASIC chair James Shipton has stepped aside pending the outcome of a review into his remuneration arrangements. Tabling the 2019/20 ASIC annual report today and addressing the Senate Estimates committee, Shipton flagged certain relocation expenses incurred ...

QSuper head of advice exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
The head of QSuper's advice unit has departed after the superannuation fund restructured its financial-advice offering to members. Kim Hughes, who was appointed as the $110 billion superannuation fund's chief of advice for QInvest in February 2019 ...

Self-licensing on the horizon

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
Consolidation in the financial advice industry is leading to a second wave of advisers leaving big institutions and potentially taking the self-licensing path. This is according to Centrepoint Alliance group executive of advice Paul Cullen, who said ...

Westpac puts Australia on bad banking leaderboard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
Global banks have paid out around US$10.5 billion in fines so far this year, with Westpac taking out third place thanks to the AUSTRAC scandal. The research, provided by Finbold, listed the top 10 biggest fines paid by global banks with US institutions ...

Transition away from LIBOR continues

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
ASIC, APRA and the RBA have joined forces in the transition away from LIBOR, which is expected to cease at the end of 2021. Last week, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) announced that it will launch the 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol ...

ClearView pushes ahead with SFT

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
The ASX-listed wealth and insurance company will complete the successor fund transfer of its risk-only superannuation products to HUB24, which is scheduled to take effect on October 31. ClearView will move its clients from its LifeSolutions Super and ...

Adviser sentenced to eight years' prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
A financial adviser has been jailed over using clients' money to fund his lifestyle to the tune of $1.1 million, including $72,000 he spent on a boat, while licensed by AMP, NAB and Synchron. Anthony Dick has been sentenced to eight years in prison ...

Crypto exchange owners charged

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... CFTC is seeking among other things, a trading ban and permanent injunction from BitMEX violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and for it to pay civil monetary penalties. It also wants BitMEX to be permanently registered and to restitute customer ...