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Founder leaves SMSF Association

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... enthusiasm and energy she brought to the task, whether it was as the chief executive or non-executive director." "The fact every major inquiry into superannuation, starting with the Cooper Review in 2010, has largely given the SMSF sector a clean bill ...

Australian fund caught in email scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... executives and other staff with access to market sensitive information." "As an assessor of potential government financing to major infrastructure projects, the NAIF manages high value information assets of commercial and political sensitivity. "The ...

Technical Services Forum: Keep advisers informed of change

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
Lively discussion broke out during the first Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum for 2019 in Sydney yesterday, with the consensus being financial advisers must be across which products are exempt from means testing. Challenger head ...

Superannuation Guarantee continues to fail employees: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... across their working life. Mercer Australia industry fund and public sector leader Jo-Anne Bloch said the report highlighted major problems with the compulsory superannuation scheme that fails to keep pace with the changing workplace and legislation ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... The IMF "projects a slowdown in growth in 2019 for 70% of the world economy... It reflects negative revisions for several major economies including the euro area, Latin America, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia". No surprises ...

Institutions fail to adequately manage social risk

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... Australia's largest financial institutions for treatment of customers and failure to meet community expectations. This was a major blow to the reputations of these institutions but, according to a new paper from the Actuaries Institute, the same organisations ...

Financial advice exit a boon for the industry: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... pending the outcome of the APRA investigation, while NAB is reportedly hunting a buyer for MLC. Westpac, the last of the major banks to join the exodus, agreed to sell a number of advisers to Viridian Advisory. Financial Standard broke the news in March ...

Praemium loses major client

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
Praemium has lost an Australian institutional client that contributed 8% to its revenue. ANZ Private made $4 million in revenue for Praemium during the 2018 calendar year. It will transition to new platform provider Netwealth from July 2019. While "it ...

Major advice licensee in possible best interest breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
Extra conditions have been placed on the AFSL of one of Australia's biggest financial advice licensees following an investigation sparked by phenomenal growth in adviser numbers in just six months. SMSF Advisers Network has had additional licence ...

Federal Budget: Industry responds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... experiencing the compliance impacts of the 2016 Budget changes that began on 1 July 2017, so the fact there are no more major changes in the pipeline is extremely positive," Maroney said. He also welcomed the Government's increase of the work test ...