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Pension fund giant cuts BHP

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... investors like KLP choose to divest from coal, it sends an important signal on future financing of such projects, and is an incentive for companies to seek other sources of income than coal-based activities," it said. "Coal-based activities are not considered ...

Compensation experts boost chief executive pay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... $50,000 on average - but can be as high as $457,244 across the largest Australian companies. Consultants have a financial incentive to be retained longer term and be employed to provide additional services to the company, he said. The exception was the ...

AMP overhauls wealth leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
AMP has announced five new appointments to its wealth management leadership team. Dedicated to providing better experiences and outcomes for clients, AMP has built out the executive team charged with overseeing its troubled wealth management business. ...

Frydenberg makes big promises for small business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... threshold, up from the current $20,000 and promised $25,000, and the news that more businesses will be eligible to use this incentive." Both the higher threshold and making the write off available to businesses with turnover up to $50 million, up from ...

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... to be tax deductible. Currently, investment advice fees are tax deductible against income-producing assets. This tax incentive should be expanded to fees such as ongoing personal advice and preparing a financial plan or Statement of Advice, it proposed. ...

NAB ends introducer payments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... because a third party received a payment to recommend us." NAB will still accept referrals, but there will no longer be an incentive payment for these referrals. "Like other businesses, we will still welcome referrals and will continue to build strong ...

Banks move to derisk, workforces shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... unload their holdings," Financial Standard director of economics and investments Ben Ong says. But super funds have incentive to stay in bank stocks and the purchasing power to buy more. "It is the same heavy weighting that, however, would prevent funds ...

AMP scraps bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
AMP will no longer be awarding incentives for leadership teams. Meanwhile, former executives have forfeited long and short term incentives and fees paid to board directors have been reduced. In its 2018 annual report chairman David Murray wrote: "The ...

Nikko AM chief executive steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... comes after he was named in a US lawsuit alleging he deliberately made lucrative stock options that were part of an incentive scheme for employees worthless. The civil case was brought by 7 former employees of Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management who are ...

Advisers to return US$125m in fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Financial advisers in the US are set to return about US$125m million to retail customers after a regulatory clampdown on inadequate fee disclosures last year. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged 79 people, including well-known names such ...