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Aussies struggle with financial goals: Generation Life

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... the unadvised also cite trust as a barrier to advice. "Trust in financial advice has come a long way since the Royal Commission," Nash said. "But ultimately, a lack of understanding about the industry, and how strategic and in-depth advice is, means ...

Property fund management firm loses AFSL

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... Street, Sydney, which is currently under construction. "Aretean is licensed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)," its website said at the time of publication. Although it wasn't specific, the reason(s) behind the cancellation ...

Insignia Financial to trial four-day work week

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
... includes several enhanced protections and improved entitlements. If the EA receives final approval from the Fair Work Commission, Insignia Financial will explore the viability of a four-day work week, including through a trial, during the course of the ...

ASIC cancels fewer AFSLs in FY24

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
ASIC cancelled or suspended 239 AFS licences (AFSLs) in the 2024 financial year, which is 9% lower than the prior period. Report 797 Licensing and professional registration activities, which tracks licensing and professional registration activities ...

Pride Advice acquires two Adelaide-based firms

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... tax-related guidance are now deductible. "The cost of financial advice has increased since the Financial Services Royal Commission handed down its findings five years ago, and the number of financial advisers has significantly decreased," Schatto said. ...

ANZ, OnePath settle $50m class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
ANZ and OnePath superannuation customers may be entitled to get their super back after Slater and Gordon secured a $50 million class action settlement. The no-fault settlement was reached with ANZ and its former subsidiaries, OnePath Custodians (OPC) ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... inflation. They are building our fiscal buffers at a time of global volatility and uncertainty." Meantime, the Productivity Commission (PC) delivered a warning over Australia's "productivity deadlock". The PC quarterly productivity bulletin found labour ...

GQG breaches SEC whistleblower protection laws

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
GQG Partners was hit with a US$500,000 fine by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violating whistleblower protection laws via the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). The watchdog found NDAs the fund manager entered with 12 potential ...

ACCC approves Lendlease, Stockland property deal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) won't block Stockland and Thai property developer Supalai's plan to acquire 12 of Lendlease's 16 residential community projects, but there are strings attached. The masterplanned communities ...

Early release of super scammer sent to prison

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
A Western Australian woman who illegally obtained $202,000 for herself and others via an early release of superannuation scam has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The unnamed High Wycombe woman was sentenced at the Perth District Court ...