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Industry fund for coal miners on ESG journey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
Mine Super, the $11 billion industry fund for the coal mining industry, has clarified its position on a number of ESG issues. Vasyl Nair is the chief risk officer for Mine Super, he recently spoke at a panel on ESG issues at the annual Investment Performance ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... from 60.7 in October. Are we seeing green shoots in the Chinese economy, fertilised and watered by government and central bank stimulus packages? Recall that on November 18, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
At the FPA Professionals Congress speakers who specialise in protecting vulnerable, elderly and disabled people from financial abuse shared how planners can be part of the solution. Anne McGowan, chief executive of Protecting Seniors Wealth, started ...

How much a self-licensee spends on compliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... practice need for self-licensing to be viable? Martyn chose to self-license after working as a financial planner at a big bank and at an accounting firm licensed through Count Financial. She said she chose to go down the path for the autonomy it offers ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...

CommInsure cops $700k hawking fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... been fined $700,000 after pleading guilty to hawking offences. The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society - a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary trading as CommInsure - has been convicted of 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products in the course of ...

Industry's Best of the Best celebrated

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... long-term wealth by identifying and profiting from market anomalies, and noted its consistent outperformance of the Reserve Bank cash rate. Speaking to Financial Standard after the event, FS Power50 member and Evalesco financial adviser Marshall Brentnall ...

State Street adds to leadership team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
State Street hired a new head of sector solutions for Australia and Southeast Asia, as the firm looks to expand in the region. Cara Brosnan has been appointed into the newly-created role, which will see her lead sales across all of State Street's products ...

Westpac gives investors an out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
Westpac has opened the exit door for share purchase plan investors caught unaware by AUSTRAC's action against the bank. Following discussions with corporate regulator ASIC, Westpac has opted to provide a withdrawal option for applicants to its share ...

FSC hails super choice amendments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... system for superannuation so that all Australians can take their super fund with them from job to job, just as they do with bank accounts and tax file numbers," Loane added.