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CBA pleads guilty to selling junk insurance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... the Federal Court at a later date. CBA's conduct was revealed during the Royal Commission and was the subject of a case study in the final report from Commissioner Hayne. The charges also come after ASIC undertook a review of the sale of consumer credit ...

Financial Standard, Deakin University partner

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
Financial Standard and Deakin University have partnered to improve students' learning experience through the integration of financial advice continuing professional development (CPD), and education capabilities. Financial advisers completing CPD ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
The documents produced by Australia's largest superannuation funds have performed dismally in an analysis of readability, with an average score of 45.6 out of a possible 100. Ethos CRS analysed 80 different documents published online by the 10 largest ...

ASIC sues former Freedom Insurance staff

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... for included overseas holidays and a Vespa scooter. ASIC is taking action following the Hayne Royal Commission's case study of Freedom Insurance, which is now in liquidation. In one instance, the firm sold life insurance to an intellectually disabled ...

Advisers closer to professionalisation: FASEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
... to complete a university level ethics course that incorporates the FASEA Code of Ethics by 1 January 2026 and no further study is required.

Default MySuper fees drop to 1%: Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... Australia could be on track to have one of the best value superannuation fund systems in the world." Rainmaker's annual fee study looked at 2683 fee options across 175 products.

Australia improves super system quality

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... superannuation system made marginal improvements and scored highly for its integrity and sustainability, according to a global study. The Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index this year graded Australia a B+, slightly better than the B it received ...

Actuaries Institute devises director skills checklist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... to poor claims experience. "Irrespective of their domain skills, directors need to have the capability and motivation to study the detail in areas where they are particularly skilled. Directors must know the type of key reports to request and need to ...

Super funds extend poor disclosure to ESG holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
... these groups doesn't make them ESG, it comes back to how they demonstrate this," Dunnin said. A Rainmaker Information study released earlier this year found that Australia's ESG super coverage ratio is among the highest in the world after analysing ...

Eight in 10 asset owners focused on sustainability: Survey

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2021
... respondents, and 45% said it is the quality of or consistency of corporate reporting and disclosures. Interestingly, the study found that not allocating to sustainability-focused investments is perceived as a reputational risk, with 64% of APAC asset ...