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Aware to restructure advice offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Australian Financial Review previously reported that 90 financial advisers would be made redundant, but Forman disputed that figure. "The number of impacted roles quoted in previous media reports is wrong and we expect the impact on planning roles to ...

ASIC praises super trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
ASIC has released the findings of its review of how superannuation trustees supported members during COVID-19 with overall positive feedback. The corporate regulator said it took several actions to check on the support provided by superannuation trustees ...

AMP Capital severs ties with global equities unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
AMP Capital will offload its $653 million global equities capability to a Canadian fund manager for an undisclosed figure. Montreal-based Fiera Capital has agreed to acquire the four-year-old strategy available to investors in the UK, via a UCITS platform ...

Women-led super funds outperform

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... the 13 funds that had an above-average proportion of women in leadership roles outperformed in the three years to FY20. Figure 1 highlights the 13 funds: Tasplan, Vision Super, Media Super, Cbus, Statewide Super, CareSuper, Commonwealth Superannuation ...

ASX200 needs executive equality: ACSI

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
The boards of the ASX200 are tracking towards gender equality, but female representation is still lacking in executive roles, according to new research. The latest analysis by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) showed women now ...

Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
No more tears, fears... and hopefully snap lockdowns. Today, 22 February 2021, will go down in Australian history as VAC (vaccine against covid-19) Day (although Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and 84-year-old ...

Super fund buys stake in retirement village

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... building its unlisted infrastructure portfolio. "As a fund we feel we're in pretty good shape. We did a lot of work to figure out what risk exposures and liquidities were," he said. "We really wanted to define as much as possible how much liquidity ...

Chief economist update: Red metal turning red hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
The latest GDP growth updates show that the world's major economies remain in contraction (in year-on-year terms) at the end of 2020 and despite the roll-out of vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic (and now its variants) remain with us, triggering stop-and-go ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut," Warren Buffett once famously advised. The barber's nod will invariably be met with opposition from shampoo manufacturers. Such is the divide between the Morrison government (the barber) and labour unions ...

Banks return $1.2bn for bad advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
Six of Australia's largest banks have paid or offered a total of $1.24 billion in compensation to customers, according to new ASIC figures. The funds have been returned to customers who suffered loss or detriment due to fees for no service misconduct ...