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ASIC keeps watch on SMSF auditors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
Updating its position on self-managed superannuation fund auditors, ASIC said more than 120 have come under the regulator's watch in the five years ending June 30. ASIC said it has deregistered, suspended or imposed conditions on 101 SMSF auditors for ...

Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
As talks about a global recession grow louder, financial advisers and investors are repositioning their clients' nest eggs against a market crash or an economic slowdown. In the past fortnight, a JPMorgan quantitative model predicted a 60% chance ...

CBA ramps up blockchain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank is close to completing more blockchain projects, after it delivered the world's first blockchain bond with World Bank in August. Speaking at SIBOS, Sophie Gilder who is CBA's head of experimentation and commercialisation for ...

Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Despite receiving a bad rap for being ineffective during the financial services Royal Commission, new research finds the majority of enforceable undertakings deter future misconduct. This is according to a joint study conducted by ASIC and the University ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) October 25 Governing Council meeting concluded with a decision that markets widely expected. The ECB left interest rates unchanged - the benchmark refinancing rate at 0%, the marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% ...

Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Life insurance reforms proposed to provide better rehabilitation and early intervention treatment have been scrapped by the Federal Government. In response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' report released ...

Unpaid super penalties too light: ISA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Industry Super Australia suggests the Australian Taxation Office's approach to unpaid superannuation is becoming a moral hazard whereby employers think they can escape penalty. Testimony from the ATO at the Senate Estimates committee for economics this ...

Challenger expands distribution reach

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
Challenger is ramping up its distribution capabilities by launching its annuities on a fifth platform. Challenger fixed-term and lifetime annuities will launch on the netwealth platform. It follows an announcement in August that saw products made available ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
It would be the winter of Australia's agriculture sector if Rabobank's 'Winter Crop Production Outlook' report is any guide. The specialist agribusiness bank predicts that the country's national harvest would drop by 23% in the 2018/19 ...

Robo-advice register launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Adviser Ratings has launched a new website that compares a multitude of robo-advisers in the market. The Robo Adviser (Smart Tools) register profiles 36 financial management fintech solutions sold directly to consumers that provide budgeting, trading ...