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APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... Swinburne Law School senior lecturer Helen Bird. "It was a big step to go down the prescribed cap path. It was the first time it was proposed," Bird said of putting hard caps. Bird said boards should make public how non-financial components of executive ...

AMP extends life insurance APL

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... The new APL includes AIA, BT, MetLife, OnePath/Zurich and TAL. BT and MetLife are the two new additions. And, for the first time, the APL will be consistent across all AMP licensees; AMP Financial Planning, Hillross and Charter will now have the same ...

RBA cuts rate to new historic low

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced another rate cut, bringing the cash rate down to 0.10% for the first time in history. Not only that, but RBA governor Philip Lowe announced a ramp up of quantitative easing measures, bringing in a new ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... said the settlement for McVeigh could have far-reaching implications for investors and climate change. "This marks the first time a major Australian super fund has agreed to settle litigation about the material financial risk of climate change and what ...

FPA announces three board additions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... Julie Matheson and Julian Place have been elected to the FPA board. James and Place will serve on the board for the first time while this will be Matheson's second time after previously serving until 2016. All three positions are for a term of three ...

FS Power50 revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... publishing. There are plenty of new faces on this year's list, with 23 advisers appearing in the FS Power50 for the first time. Women represent 38% of the list, the same proportion as in 2019. However, two years ago, women accounted for just 32% ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... they add outweighs the fees paid. "We know some clients can experience sticker shock when they see advice fees for the first time. Our report shows that an adviser charging an advice fee of $3250 to a client with a $250,000 balance can potentially deliver ...

Less might be more in ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... results also suggest investors should be mindful of companies that do not sufficiently address shareholder proposals the first time they are submitted, or those that fail to convince shareholders that their concerns will be addressed in the future." ...

BABL named, shamed over Great Southern

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... sanctions to code subscribing banks that commit breaches, including naming the bank in their annual report. This is the first time the BCCC has ever named a bank for non-compliance and only the second time since 2008 that a bank has received such a sanction. ...

LIC seeks conversion to ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... move may not necessarily signal a systematic shift of LICs or LITs converting to ETFs in the future. "This is not the first time we are seeing restructure...I think it's a case of investors perhaps not thinking as critically around the structure of the ...