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Your Future, Your Super reforms closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
The federal government has released its draft legislation for the Your Future, Your Super reforms, opening the industry consultation period until December 24. The package of reforms, which was unveiled in the 2020-21 budget, has four main components ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett History is again bearing witness to the "Sage of Omaha's" widely-known investing principle for who would have dreamed that the US equity market would rally ...

Financial adviser reference checks under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
ASIC has released a consultation paper seeking feedback on reference checking protocols for financial advisers and mortgage brokers. Requiring financial advisers to have reference checks was one of the recommendations to come out of the Royal Commission. ...

Shipton's tax bill under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has answered questions in regards to the remuneration of ASIC chair James Shipton and former deputy chair Daniel Crennan. At the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services, chair ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
A slew of regulation recommended by the Hayne Royal Commission to tighten the reigns in the superannuation industry will come into force with the introduction of a new bill. Introduced in Parliament on November 12, the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne ...

Westpac settles two class actions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Westpac has agreed to settle two separate class actions relating to anti-money laundering breaches and rate rigging initiated in the US for undisclosed amounts. The bank settled the action filed by Rosen Law Firm relating to its failure to monitor financial ...

ANZ flags earnings hit

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
ANZ has announced a $528 million impact on its cash profit as a result of remediation costs, accelerated software costs and goodwill write off. Following a product review across ANZ, remediation charges have been increased $97 million from the first ...

IOOF compensation bill soars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The former pensions and investments business of ANZ has exacerbated IOOF's client remediation bill, which has now topped $760 million. The provision for ex-ANZ P&I took the lion's share of the total remediation bill at $197.9 million. The firm ...

NAB adds to wealth client remediation

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
National Australia Bank has added to its existing $2 billion bill for customer remediation, upping its provisions for wealth clients ahead of its full year results. The bank has increased its provisions for customer remediation to $266 million after ...

Morphic co-founder exits

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
Chad Slater has resigned from Morphic Asset Management, a year after Ellerston Capital bought a stake in the business. Slater's portfolio management responsibilities will go to Ellerston co-head of global equities Bill Pridham. He has also resigned ...