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High Court dismisses Westpac appeal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... (WSAL) and BT Funds Management (BTFM) had breached the Corporations Act when recommending customers rollover of superannuation accounts to Westpac/BT products. At the time, the judge said ASIC failed to prove the phone calls constituted personal financial ...

BT appoints risk expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... head of management assurance in October 2017. Prior to that, she was an independent consultant at the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation for two years and spent a decade at PwC in senior roles. Other than risk and compliance, her experience in wealth ...

New trading platform to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... Pearler gives investors the option to invest how they please or set up an "autoinvest" strategy - akin to the way superannuation is invested. One way it encourages to invest in the long term is via the platform's partnership with ETF providers. Pearler ...

Milestone launches asset allocation tool

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
The global fintech firm is targeting Australian superannuation funds with the launch of its tailored institutional asset allocation solution in Asia Pacific (APAC). Milestone Group's pControl Asset Allocation offers a set of cost-effective and comprehensive ...

Your Future, Your Super on APRA to-do list

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... government's Your Future, Your Super reforms is one of the prudential regulator's priorities for 2021. The controversial superannuation reforms have been listed as a key policy priority for APRA this year as it prepares to support the reforms' implementation. ...

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Superannuation funds need to set clear, transparent emissions reduction targets for their investment portfolios that are based on metrics that can be compared across the industry, according to recommendations from the Australasian Centre for Corporate ...

RSE trustee board composition evolving

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... positions at RSE licensees to 10.7% of them as at June 2020, says new APRA data. The total directorships at responsible superannuation entity licensees shrunk 22.7% from 1093 positions at June 2015 to 845 positions at June 2020. Of the total 845 directorships ...

Parametric names new research lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... recently wrote about the pivotal role centralised portfolio management (CPM) can play in the mass consolidation of the superannuation industry, particularly over the next decade. CPM can deliver investment solutions that better match the needs and preferences ...

Malicious attacks most common in finance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... remains the highest reporting industry sector, notifying 23% of all breaches. Financial services, including the superannuation industry, reported 80 breaches for the period, with only 68% of those reported within 30 days of the incident. Australian Information ...

Raiz Super regains losses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
The micro-investing platform grew its superannuation funds under management by nearly 15% in the December quarter despite the impact of the early release of super scheme (ERS). Raiz Invest's superannuation portfolio swelled to $81 million or 14% from ...