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China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
There is a strange tug-o-war occurring in Asia at the moment. On the one hand every man and his dog is trying to tap into the wonders of China as an emerging market, and on the other there is mayhem as one of the nation's major financial hubs suffers ...

Life insurers lost $3.4b over five years: APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has launched an intervention into the life insurance market in response to ongoing heavy losses in respect of individual disability income insurance. The regulator announced a series of measures, including ...

Industry fund for coal miners on ESG journey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
Mine Super, the $11 billion industry fund for the coal mining industry, has clarified its position on a number of ESG issues. Vasyl Nair is the chief risk officer for Mine Super, he recently spoke at a panel on ESG issues at the annual Investment Performance ...

FASEA compliance has silver lining

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
For financial planning practices that don't have a clearly laid out business plan, the workload of meeting FASEA's Code of Ethics requirements can be a great push to get it in order, according to a speaker at the FPA Congress. In a session about ...

Super fund PDSs to include single cost of product figure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
ASIC has updated its guidance to superannuation funds and issuers of managed investment products on fees and cost disclosure, with a suite of new requirements set to apply from late-2020. The corporate regulator released an updated version of Regulatory ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Rainmaker's research head is calling for the superannuation industry to avoid over-interpreting OECD figures indicating Australia's retirement saving system is cheap, as debate breaks out. Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker executive director of research and compliance ...

Chief economist update: Lower rates still fail to animate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Uh-oh...we might be getting in trouble now. Not only are Australian households not lifting their spending despite the drop in the official cash rate to a record low 0.75% but it's looking a lot like businesses aren't too. The Australian Bureau ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...

CommInsure cops $700k hawking fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
CommInsure has been fined $700,000 after pleading guilty to hawking offences. The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society - a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary trading as CommInsure - has been convicted of 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products ...

Westpac gives investors an out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
Westpac has opened the exit door for share purchase plan investors caught unaware by AUSTRAC's action against the bank. Following discussions with corporate regulator ASIC, Westpac has opted to provide a withdrawal option for applicants to its share ...