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AFA, FPA to explore merger

CASSANDRA BALDINI, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to consider a merger. The aim, they say, is to create a united voice for the financial advice sector. The associations ...

Focus on providing 'good advice': QAR draft proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... the consent form should explain the services that will be provided as well as the fee proposed by the adviser over the course of the upcoming 12 months. She said where advice fees are deducted from more than one product, a single consent form should ...

Perpetual to acquire Pendal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
... would be invited to join the Perpetual board. Perpetual said a newly appointed executive committee will be named in due course, all of whom would report to Adams. Pendal's board has unanimously recommended its shareholders vote in favour of the scheme ...

ASIC highlights strategic priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
ASIC has released its corporate plan, outlining strategic priorities and its course of action for the next four years, with a particular focus on the retirement sector. The regulator highlighted four strategic priorities. One of its primary focuses ...

WA financial services director banned for six years

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
... investments from the Chiodo Diversified Property Development Class to the Australian Opportunities Class (AOC). During the course of this misconduct, Hutchinson misused personal information about investors by contacting them when she was not in a role ...

Cash was king in FY22: Vanguard

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
... which asset class is going to be outperforming in any one year and you can't time the market," Gopal said. "Over the course of the last 30 years, every major asset class has had a turn at being strongest or weakest so the best course for most investors ...

Macquarie appoints directors to bank board

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... financial reporting as chair of the board audit committee." Stevens added he expects to announce a third appointment in due course.

Equities challenged but opportunities are there

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... only heightens the risks of more substantial macroeconomic dislocation down the track. It's not an easy task, charting a course between vanquishing inflation without tipping the economy into recession, he said. During a tightening cycle when the world ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... will only exacerbate the hardship." The IMF recommended that central banks that have started tightening should stay the course until inflation is tamed. Aside from the IMF announcement, a White House statement has quashed the traditional recession evaluation ...

Suncorp agrees to super class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2022
... or Summerhayes and Carroll, documents show. Of this, about $19 million will be deducted to cover costs incurred over the course of the class action. This includes more than $14 million to be paid to the litigation funder to cover action costs and in ...