Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 4161 - 4170 of 10553 results for "BEI"

Former NULIS chair faces Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
The former chair of NAB's superannuation entities has denied MLC tried to bill other services in order to claim advice fees. Nicole Smith was the NULIS Nominees chair from 2013 to 2018, and she faced the Royal Commission this afternoon as it resumed ...

Plan service fees did not constitute fee for no service: NAB

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Responding to questions from counsel assisting Michael Hodge, former NAB general manager of superannuation and platforms Paul Carter attempted to distinguish between other cases of fees for no service and NAB charging superannuation customers for advice ...

IOOF continues organic growth trajectory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
IOOF is celebrating record financial results, driven largely by its financial advice and platforms businesses and the execution of multiple acquisitions as recent as June. IOOF reported a record underlying profit after tax of $191.4 million for FY18 ...

NAB looked to keep plan service fees, Royal Commission hears

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
The Royal Commission heard this morning that NAB considered ways to justify retaining plan service fees (PSF) it charged superannuation fund members despite the services not actually being supplied. Questioning former NAB general manager of superannuation ...

Equity Trustees responds to GAM suspension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Equity Trustees halted applications into and redemptions from two GAM Investments funds following the suspension of the global manager's fixed income investment director. In a letter to unitholders, Equity Trustees - as responsible entity for the ...

Lose grandfathered commissions, lose business: MLC

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The financial services Royal Commission questioned if MLC's decision to stick with grandfathered arrangements was in the best interest of members following a large consolidation of superannuation funds that provided an opportunity to remove them. ...

Vicinity Centres partners for $1bn wholesale property fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The property giant is launching a new wholesale fund in a 50:50 joint venture with a Singapore-based asset manager. Vicinity Centres will take $1 billion worth of shopping centres off its balance sheets and use them to seed a new wholesale fund in the ...

Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Commonwealth Bank is extending its domestic and family violence support program due to customer need, with its helpline receiving about 90,000 calls in the first month. Initially launched as a 12-month pilot in November 2017, the CBA Domestic and Family ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Just in time for tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting, ME Bank published the results of the 14th survey of its "Household Financial Comfort Report", taken last June. "The ME Household Financial Comfort Report provides ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The financial services Royal Commission will put Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system under the spotlight over the next two weeks and legal experts say a key question is whether conflicts of interest are influencing super funds and letting ...