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AustralianSuper consortium renews bid for healthcare company

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
The BGH Capital-AustralianSuper consortium has made another bid to acquire Healthscope, five months after the company rejected its previous bid. BGH-AustralianSuper is offering to pay $2.36 per share for the private hospital owner-operator. This offer ...

Robo-advice register launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... launched to provide consumers more transparency about the emerging world of finance solutions. "The fact that only 14% of Australians receive advice despite the large majority needing assistance with their finances demonstrates a huge unmet opportunity," ...

Argo Investments attacks Labor franking policy

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... Investments said Labor's policy to remove refundable franking credits would be equivalent to a 30% tax increase for Australians who rely on the income from franking credits. Addressing shareholders, Argo chair Russell Higgins said the firm had taken ...

Afterpay faces senate inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... regulation around payday lenders such as Afterpay is adequately protecting low and middle income, and financially stressed Australians. Labor senator Jenny McAllister said yesterday that the inquiry will put the spotlight on "debt vultures" and companies ...

ASIC moves on Dollarmites

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... Commonwealth Bank's recently criticised Dollarmites program. ASIC said school banking programs are supposed to educate young Australians about the importance of saving by using the school to facilitate deposits. However, after recent criticism of CBA's ...

Adviser-client relationships not swayed by RC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... telling us that there are good advisers who are doing a great job," Lippiatt said. "However, given that the majority of Australians currently don't have an adviser, the challenge for us as an industry is to make financial advice more affordable and accessible ...

Colonial First State to cut tobacco by 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
Colonial First State has vouched to offload all its tobacco-related investments by 2020, as it signs on to the UN-endorsed Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge. CFS currently has less than 1% of total assets in tobacco-related investments but declined to disclose ...

Former AustralianSuper risk boss joins AMP super boards

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
A former head of risk management at AustralianSuper has joined the boards responsible for the governance of AMP's superannuation funds. Tony Brain will link with AMP to help govern its suite of superannuation funds, adding more than 30 years of experience ...

Lost super sits at $17.5bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... funds when they change jobs, move house or simply forget to update their details. "We know that more than a third of Australians still hold two or more super accounts. While some people intentionally maintain multiple accounts, a lot of people are unaware ...

Advisers gain FASEA credits for existing qualifications

HARRISON WORLEY  |  SUNDAY, 14 OCT 2018
... develop and implement a customer-centric cultural model. "A core part of how we're going to improve trust with Australians is for firm's great and small to really have a culture that says the customer is actually in the centre of the equation. ...