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Funds management not up to scratch: ASIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
The funds management industry has demonstrated broad commitment to its legal obligations but is still falling short in a number of areas. In a report issued yesterday, ASIC found that responsible entities operating managed funds on behalf of retail ...

Major US pension fund divests Australian coal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
The largest educator-only pension fund in the world is divesting from all non-US thermal coal holdings, including Australia-based Whitehaven Coal. The US$206.5 billion California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) teachers' retirement board ...

Fiduciary rule introduced in United States

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Financial advisers in the United States are now required to act in the best interests of clients in a bid to prevent the US$17 billion lost by retirement savers each year. Last Friday, the US Department of Labor partially introduced the impartial conduct ...

ASIC bans former Westpac adviser

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
A former representative of Westpac has been banned from providing financial services for five years following an ASIC investigation. Sudhir Kumar Sinha, a financial planner from Western Australian, was found to have systematically failed to meet his ...

ASIC launches LIF instrument

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
ASIC launched a new instrument cementing the maximum amount of fees and ongoing commissions advisers can charge on life insurance products as part of industry-wide reforms. The Life Insurance Commissions Instrument will cap advisers' commissions and ...

Actuaries warn against one size fits all retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
The Actuaries Institute has urged the government to use caution when designing Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement, saying a prescriptive approach would see the proliferation of sub-scale, unsustainable products. In its submission to Treasury's ...

ETP demand grows, fees stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
Exchange traded products are charging fees disproportionately to the dramatic growth in assets and number of products available, according to Rainmaker data. Between March 2013 and 2017, ETP funds under management quadrupled from $7.2 billion to $27.2 ...

Former Garvan adviser banned for $2.4m theft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
A jailed former authorised representative of Garvan Financial Planning was permanently banned by ASIC for misappropriating client funds. Patrick Simon Mitchell was banned by the regulator, having been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), representing $1.5 trillion in funds under management, has condemned US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump justified the ...

Schroders managers join Bennelong UK business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
Two veteran Schroders fund managers will join a boutique launched by the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management. Paul Marriage and John Warren will transfer over to Bennelong subsidiary BennBridge and its first UK boutique Tellworth Investments in ...