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Government scraps legacy tax, super measures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... introduce a requirement for retirement income product providers to report standardised metrics in product disclosure statements. Meanwhile, the start dates of some other measures that have yet to be legislated have been deferred. The relaxation of residency ...

ASIC continues crack down on deceptive advertising

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
... order, Fawkner cannot offer, issue, sell or transfer interests in the fund based on its existing product disclosure statements (PDS). According to ASIC, Fawkner misrepresented the performance risks of the fund in its marketing in several instances, including ...

Equity Trustees wins Hejaz mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022
... matters, Equity Trustees efficiently supported the preparation and issuing of the three compliant product disclosure statements," Dhedy said. "We believe these three funds offer additional 'positive impact' benefits above and beyond returns by incorporating ...

ASIC scrutinises managed fund marketing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
... representations. Where we identify fund marketing of concern, we will also review the corresponding product disclosure statements, websites, and target market determinations to assess if the marketing claims are misleading. "ASIC is committed to protecting ...

ASIC consults on refreshing PDSs, FSGs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
ASIC has opened consultations on remaking the relief contained in product disclosure statements and financial services guides. Under Consultation Paper 358 Remaking ASIC relief on PDSs, superannuation dashboards and FSGs, the corporate regulator is ...

Half of all super products cut fees: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... while 5% of products' fees dropped more than once. Recent analysis of 463 superannuation fund product disclosure statements by Rainmaker Information found 48% of products decreased their fees since October 2020. The analysis also shows that 5% of ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... the 10 largest industry funds and 10 largest retail funds. The documents looked at were the funds' product disclosure statements, financial services guide, annual reports, and company policies. The metrics used to derive readability scores were grade ...

Super fee squeeze continues

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... products dropped their fees in the March quarter, according to Rainmaker Information's analysis of 475 product disclosure statements. Overall, 152 superannuation products updated their PDS's between January and March 2021. Of this, about 10% (16 products) ...

ASIC bans Theta managing director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... Between 20 May 2016 and 1 May 2018, Marie raised $16,710,669 from retail investors from five defective product disclosure statements for the trust that breached the Corporations Act. The documents were found to be misleading and deceptive, and omitted ...

ASIC to wind up PE Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... vehicle trusts. On top of that, ASIC claims PE Capital made misleading and deceptive statements in product disclosure statements. ASIC wants the Federal Court to wind up PE Capital and its unregistered schemes and obtain declarations that the company ...