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Baby boomers receive $259 million, pension work bonus lifted

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... increase. "CPSA calls for half-yearly indexation of Work Bonus, to ensure that pensioners who work continue to have an incentive to do so," CPSA policy co-ordinator Paul Versteege said. The move is set to cost the government $227.4 million over the next ...

Three AMP directors step down

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Three non-executive directors have chosen to resign from AMP's board. While Patty Akopiantz will serve until the end of the year, Vanessa Wallace and Holly Kramer will step down from the board ahead of AMP's annual general meeting. Wallace will also ...

The tools to capture quality

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... history with the board, in particular how they are incentivised. It's a factor sure to come under further scrutiny after incentive structures in Australia's large financial institutions were placed under the microscope during the Royal Commission - an ...

ANZ culls sales incentives for planners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
ANZ will no longer factor in sales incentives while calculating bonuses for its financial planners and boot them out if they fail an audit twice, the bank announced today. As ANZ attempts to revive its advice business after Royal Commission hearings ...

CBA enters APRA EU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
APRA has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking from Commonwealth Bank, having determined the bank's operational risk management framework "worked better on paper than in practice." Releasing the final report of its prudential inquiry into CBA, the regulator ...

Heffron partnership to offer robo-SMSFs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... trust and transparency. Six Park chooses investments based on what we believe is best for our clients, not any other incentive or commission. Heffron's fees are fixed, independent of the size of the portfolio and do not include any commissions," Garrett ...

AMP's buyer of last resort measures scrutinised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... platforms on AMP's APSL being largely limited to AMP's own offerings. "Can I suggest that that provides quite a strong incentive for the adviser to place a client on a platform that is on the APL?" Hodge asked. Regan replied: "Yes, noting that was in ...

CountPlus firm acquires NSW practice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... first firms within CountPlus to "avail ourselves for the owner, driver, partner approach." "With the right balance of incentive through owner equity, a strong partner with solid core values and balance sheet, we expect to quickly consolidate the efficiencies ...

ASIC disqualifies two SMSF auditors

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... as a tax professional for a company that fraudulently claimed $549,719 under the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Incentive.

Executive pay structure still fuels risk-taking: APRA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
Australia's largest financial institutions still remunerate senior executives in a way that encourages risk-taking and undermines long-term financial health - but RSE licensees may be doing a better job than their peers, APRA said today. The findings ...