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ASFA partners with First Nations Foundation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
... on ASFA's support of the First Nations Super Summit earlier this year," ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty said. FNF is a not-for-profit Indigenous financial wellbeing foundation led by an Indigenous majority board since 2006. "It's encouraging to see ...

Advisers shoulder massive wealth transfer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... what that means to us is that we have the biggest opportunity in financial advice that's probably ever existed. It's not going to be easy though," CoreData global chief executive Andrew Inwood says. Many advisers find the transferral of money ...

Keybridge Capital cops another loss against WAM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... off-market takeover bid for WAM. The same day, WAM wrote to Keybridge and issued an ASX announcement stating that it "[did] not consider that the Proposed Bid is genuine". Keybridge called for a meeting of WAM, which was set to be held in person in March ...

Annual MAX Awards celebrates best in industry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... they do. "The submissions we received this year demonstrated their passion and commitment in delivering the best outcomes, not just for their organisation but for their end-clients and investors. Last night was a real cause for celebration and we commend ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... between holding shares in a company and indirect exposures through a pooled fund. "It seems to me that such a consumer would not draw that distinction..." he said. "... there is nothing in the Impact Reports or on the LGSS website that suggests that ...

Pollaers to chair AFCA for another three years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
John Pollaers will continue as chair of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) for another three years. Pollaers, who has served as the independent chair of AFCA for the past three years, has been reappointed to the position. This second ...

More businesses fold, unpaid super recovery measure to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... that "the recovery program plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of FEG as a scheme of last resort that is not intended to relieve employers of their obligation to properly fund employee entitlements." "Since the recovery program was established ...

Australian Unity lashed by ASIC over TMD questionnaire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... relied on a flawed questionnaire as a key step for compliance with its obligations when dealing with retail clients who have not received financial advice. "The questions and response options were based on and relied predominantly on complex consumer ...

Sequoia chief learns his fate at EGM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
Sequoia Financial Group held an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) this week to consider a resolution to remove chief executive and managing director Garry Crole. Shareholders voted against removing Crole, securing 59.95% of the votes, with 40.05% ...

Recession signs: Economic growth has 'ground to a halt'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... received over the past five quarters has progressively shrunk." Aird noted that the slowdown in GDP growth was "by design, not default" as the economy was running hot coming out of the pandemic and operating above its capacity. "But that picture has ...