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Climate risk should be integral to business: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... community have identified climate risk as a growing area of concern, and company directors are likely to face increasing scrutiny of their decisions in the years ahead." The report points to seven main principles for effective disclosures including ensuring ...

Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... implementing some of Hayne's key recommendations, the decision by major institutions to leave the advice space and greater scrutiny from ASIC. Touching on the issue of grandfathered commissions, Kewin said: "The key legislative change that has been enacted ...

VanEck launches first active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... Susquehanna as its primary one, instead of using an internal market making mechanism which has recently been subject to ASIC's scrutiny. "External market making offer greater price discovery as there is competition among them [which is in] interest of ...

Stamping fees consultation kicks off

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... consultation into "stamping fees" paid by fund managers to advisers and brokers for exchange-listed funds, as public scrutiny into the practice mounts. The Future of financial Advice (FoFA) reforms in 2013 put an end to commissions that financial advisers ...

Goldman Sachs $1b corruption bill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... earnings. The 1MDB scandal has been ongoing since 2016, with claims of embezzlement and money laundering with the bank under scrutiny for its role in raising money for the Malaysian government owned investment fund that was allegedly misappropriated ...

Faith-based super fund increases fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... the statement said. "Because Sharia principles are factored into all financial decisions, there is a greater level of scrutiny applied to investment practices and management leading to higher costs than other funds may incur." Equity Trustees, the trustee ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... - a majority of 99 - which allows the bill to sail through to the House of Lords where peers will begin line by line scrutiny next week." This the latest news from The Independent, headed "Boris Johnson news: Brexit legislation passes Commons..." News? ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... communicating with members. And finally, APRA's heat maps that came out just last week have already been the subject of scrutiny but the question still remains: will consumers even use them? As expected, it's these themes that have shaped Financial Standard' ...

Charlie Aitken resigns from Contango

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... endeavours." Aitken is the chief executive and chief investment officer of Aitken Investment Management. Aitken has been facing scrutiny lately over the performance of his Aitken Investment Management high conviction fund. The fund was down 9.9% for ...

APRA joins in on Westpac scrutiny

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
APRA has launched a formal investigation into Westpac for possible breaches of the Banking Act. The prudential regulator said the investigation will focus on the conduct that led to AUSTRAC launching its criminal charges against the bank over an alleged ...