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MetLife Australia partners with Foodbank

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... Foodbank to provide 186,000 meals to Australians from July this year to next summer as COVID-19 increases the demand for food relief. MetLife Australia and MetLife Foundation's donation represent 10,000kgs of food, the company said. It also equals a ...

Chief economist update: Japan reopens for business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... reclaiming a complete normal while suppressing infections will take some time." Given this, Abe announced a supplementary budget relief package worth more than ¥100 trillion (US$929 billion) in addition to April's ¥117 fiscal stimulus - which together ...

916 advisers gone in three months, ASIC responds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... financial advice industry pull through COVID-19. "We've adapted and responded to the immediate challenges by providing some relief to financial advisers so Australians can get access for some of the critical questions that are now before them," Shipton ...

Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No.1) bill through both the House of Representatives and the Senate, ensuring the tax relief granted to merging super funds is now permanent, rather than a temporary measure. Previously, fund members may have faced ...

Compliance crackdown, consultations on horizon: ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... fraud and controversies that other markets have had." Lewis also revealed the ASX's temporary emergency capital raising relief measures had been widely successful. "They reflect the anticipated difficulty that listed companies would have in the current ...

ASIC releases weekly regulatory tracker

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... made by ASIC which are published on the Federal Register of Legislation, and information about instruments which provide relief to individual entities where this is related to COVID-19," the regulator said. The new tracker has been introduced to supplement ...

ASX appoints compliance chief

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... guidance to listed entities," she said. Most recently, Lewis initiated and implemented the ASX's emergency capital raising relief to support listed companies during the COVID-19 crisis, Johnstone added. Lewis will take up a newly created position as ...

FPA launches new ROA solution template

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... advice. "This will be key to improving the overall advice experience," De Gori said. "The FPA understands that even with the relief provided by ASIC - i.e. the use of ROA and the extension of time from five days to 30 days - it will still be a difficult ...

Adviser fears over ASIC relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... backed by major industry associations and advocacy bodies, those that actually provide financial advice fear new temporary relief measures offered by ASIC may push Australians towards conflicted advice. On April 14 ASIC announced a raft of measures aimed ...

Westpac flags $2.2bn impairment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... committed to assisting as many customers as possible to bridge this shutdown period." "Our packages are already providing relief to individual and business customers. It is however unfortunate that some customers will not be able to navigate the financial ...