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Future retirement products aided by tax exclusions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... currently payable or held for an individual that has reached retirement, such as deferred products. In announcing the new regulations, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer encouraged the industry to cast submissions in order to shape ...

IMAP ensuring greater representation for MDAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... Investment Management IMAP chair Toby Potter said the key driver for the establishment of the committee is the different regulations that organisations offering managed accounts via a PDS must adhere to, and their tendency to have greater diversity across ...

Super funds receive guidance on RG97

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
... 2017. RG97 has caused angst among the industry with associations and asset consultants previously cautioning the new regulations. Speaking at The Superannuation Opportunity forum in November, Frontier Advisors chief executive Damian Moloney said RG97 ...

RI Advice launches retirement planning toolkit

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... superannuation balances that may not last them through retirement. "Combine this with the complex array of technical rules and regulations surrounding retirement planning and it is clear that pre-retirement specialist advice is now more critical than ...

Aussie super funds building world-class investment teams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... principles, including diversification." The report suggests that best practice would be funds that leverage flexible regulations and increased diversification to deliver risk-adjusted returns. "To succeed in today's dynamic and precarious market, pension ...

Tail wags the dog in ESG regulation: PRI

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... markets "as they currently function have an enormous influence on environmental and social outcomes", and that "many regulations fail to send a strong enough signal and position responsible investment as a voluntary activity... Their key tool is disclosure ...

ASIC falls on fund disclosure sword

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... time to present the required data in a uniform way and facilitate better like-for-like product comparison, as the regulations have always intended." Earlier this month the FSC and other industry groups were part of a forum in Sydney that discussed several ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... efforts to cool property speculation. Curbs include: higher downpayments, bans on second-home purchases, and stricter regulations on property developers in bond issuance. China retail sales China's rebalancing into domestic consumption may have hit a ...

Digital advice as commonplace as internet banking

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... but they will want to do a lot of it online." In this regard, Kolbusz said ASIC's recently-released digital advice regulations have been a godsend for companies like Decimal. "They basically wrote our compliance marketing material for us," he said. "If ...

Self-auditing SMSF auditor caught in ASIC breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... that Samuel had "failed to carry out or perform adequately and properly the duties of an auditor under the Act or the Regulations or as otherwise required by law; and, furthermore or alternatively, the Applicant (Mr Samuel) is not a fit and proper person ...