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Half of advice, super complaints result in no remedy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... including a focus on gathering accurate data. "The gaps we've identified suggest there may be inconsistent IDR reporting practices across the industry," Kirkland said. "While there may be reasonable explanations for some of these variances, we encourage ...

AMP completes advice licensees sale

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... they could have made a choice to leave and 103 accepted," he told Financial Standard. "We spent many hours with the practices 12 months ago, showing them what the pathways were and getting their feedback. What we've done was the most popular by a ...

Australian Retirement Trust primed for growth: Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... midrisk asset books have been elemental to the fund's returns, though liquidity, risk management, and valuation practices are solid. The total portfolio approach is a center of investing excellence, with expectations high for insights from the fund's ...

Swan hits back at Bragg: 'That's wrong of you'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... accountability for the outcomes, and that's why we have worked very hard with both the regulators and our fund to uplift our practices in this area, and that's what we're doing right now." Bragg pushed the point, saying: "To remind you of ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... this proposal is that the NCAs of today can become the professional financial advisers of the future," she said. Advice practices can too leverage NCAs to advise children or the grandchildren of existing clients. "Advice firms should have this option. ...

BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard sued over climate stance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... Texas, claiming the institutions "conspired to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices." The lawsuit claims that BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard progressively acquired substantial shareholdings in every ...

Can technology help advisers service the masses?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... adviser. I think the difficulty will be in doing both in terms of adoption of technology and change management within practices [and so forth]," he said. The big challenge to platforms such as CFS, HUB24, Netwealth, North and so forth, he predicts, is ...

Treasury consults on new crypto tax laws

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... jurisdictions have implemented the CRS and financial markets have continued to evolve, giving rise to new investment and payment practices." The OECD worked together with G20 countries to conduct the first comprehensive review of the CRS in consultation ...

AustralianSuper to pay $4.2m for delayed claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... super trustees to ensure they are processing death benefit claims efficiently, saying it has seen "consistently weak" practices and "operational failures." ASIC put super funds on notice, writing to chief executives to express its concerns over death ...

Northern Trust launches new solution for insto investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... solutions. Clients can access these services globally, either on a component basis - to complement their current in-house practices - or as part of a broader suite of collateral management solutions." Meantime, CloudMargin chief executive Stuart Connolly ...