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Dollarmites faces more backlash

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... the Victorian ban, consumer comparison site RateCity.com.au is urging parents with children enrolled in Dollarmites to switch to savings accounts with a higher interest rate. Ratecity.com.au research director Sally Tindall likened the program to McDonald's ...

Insurance in super is confusing: Consumers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
Consumers engaging directly with their super fund on insurance matters are often left confused and overwhelmed by the information provided and upset they cannot get guidance specific to their circumstances, an ASIC report shows. A third of unadvised ...

Give the people advisers: Retirement Income Review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The first comprehensive review of Australia's retirement system has acknowledged that affordable financial advice is what people need to navigate the retirement system. After the Royal Commission exposed deep flaws in Australia's financial advice ...

Chief economist update: Vaccine optimism sparks AUD resurgence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The Australian dollar is back! Back above the US$0.73 level that is. The Australian currency rose to around this level back in late-August/early-September after the US Federal Reserve announced a shift into a lower for longer strategy - suggesting that ...

Industry fund introduces tax incentive

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... retirement savings as soon as they reach their preservation age," he said. Separately, the nearly $3 billion super fund will switch to daily unit pricing from December 1. Investment switches will be processed daily, rather than weekly and will be free ...

Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... Carbon Emissions Data Enable Investors to Mitigate Climate Change? reads. To help mitigate climate change, investors tend to switch investments from "brown to green companies" and engage in activist measures - but this all depends on available greenhouse ...

First strike at Pengana LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
Pengana International Equities (PIA) faced a first strike against its remuneration report, as about 49.9% of votes went against it. Unitholders of the LIC had two resolutions before them at the October 28 Annual General Meeting: THE reelection of David ...

Evans and Partners looks to delist LITs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
Evans and Partners is seeking the nod from shareholders to convert its LITs to open-ended funds and to switch to Perpetual as responsible entity. The largest of these is the $279 million Evans & Partners Global Disruption Fund (EGD), followed by the ...

ASX delays CHESS replacement again

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... much higher processing levels and sooner, is now a Day 1 requirement." This is the second time the ASX has delayed the switch to distributed ledger technology (DLT), which was originally slated to go live in April 2021 and then pushed back to April 2022. ...

Aware Super in-houses fund administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... includes fund administration, and communication and engagement with members -- which will all be done in-house after the switch. Aware already has a telephone contact centre in Melbourne while Mercer has provided certain communication services to some ...