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Associations call for improved access to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
The Joint Association Working Group (JAWG) has urged the government to improve access to financial advice through the Quality of Advice Review (QAR) proposals. In a letter to assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones, the ...

Vanguard veteran announces retirement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
... advisers. Outside of his Vanguard tenure, Bowerman served on the board of the SMSF Association, founded the FSC ETF working group and co-authored Wealth of Experience with Duffield. Vanguard Australia managing director Daniel Shrimski said: "On behalf ...

MFS names global fixed income investment chiefs

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
MFS is growing its fixed income department's leadership team with the addition of two co-chief investment officers. MFS director of fixed income, Europe Pilar Gomez-Bravo and fixed income portfolio manager Alexander Mackey will join current chief investment ...

Data sharing laws updated in response to Optus breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... as fraud information exchanges," Treasury said. In addition, the Council of Financial Regulators' cybersecurity working group will examine and report on options to further improve the ability of financial institutions to identify at risk customers and ...

Actuary of the Year named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022
... addition, Dolman is a founding member of the Actuaries Institute's Data Analytics Committee, chair of the Institute Working Group for the collaboration with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and a member of the General Insurance Practice ...

A sensible roadmap: Industry responds to QAR paper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... simpler regulatory framework while maintaining necessary consumer protections." Meanwhile, the Joint Associations Working Group also welcomed the paper's publication. "This Proposal Paper demonstrates the federal government's ongoing commitment ...

Advice requirements confusing, complex: JAWG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
The Joint Associations Working Group has told the Quality of Advice Review to reduce compliance burdens and to enable the delivery of affordable, accessible advice to more consumers. In a statement, the collective of professional associations called ...

Calls for Indigenous super beneficiary changes renewed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
The Indigenous Superannuation Working Group will lobby the new federal government to ensure it reprioritises the recognition of kinship structures in Indigenous communities for increased super access. AIST chief executive and Indigenous Superannuation ...

Assets under custody hit $4.7tn

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA), the peak industry body for custodians and asset service providers in Australia today released industry data showing assets under custody increased by 5.8%to a new record of $4.7 trillion in the six ...

APRA, ASIC provide annual update

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... the agencies have collaborated on loan repayment deferrals and borrower hardship, participated in a cross-agency working group with the Treasury and the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, helped progress test cases in a timely and efficient manner ...