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ASIC smooths path for crypto ETFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... ASIC's good practice guide includes admission and monitoring standards, custody of crypto-assets, pricing methodologies, disclosure and risk management best practice. The regulator has also introduced a new 'crypto-asset' category in the licensing application ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... online by the 10 largest industry funds and 10 largest retail funds. The documents looked at were the funds' product disclosure statements, financial services guide, annual reports, and company policies. The metrics used to derive readability scores ...

Former Women in Super chief joins AIST

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... disclosing asset prices so as not to undermine its ability to compete on the global scale. Instead, the AIST supports disclosure of investment information, including where it relates to unlisted assets, and has proposed a framework for disclosing information ...

Sunsuper, QSuper merger legislation passes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... only new assets that comply with the Paris goals; and a to report against the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) for the year to June 2022. "Further... QSuper will assess climate change exposures (transition and physical) at a ...

Financial services feels talent crunch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... with increased merger activity, is creating a need for communications professional with experience in regulatory and disclosure communications," senior recruitment consultant Stacey Fernandes said. "Additionally, as part of an ongoing education campaign ...

BOQ divests St Andrew's Insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... and promote St Andrew's funeral insurance products on 19 March 2018. During that period, St Andrew's made a voluntary disclosure to ASIC about Select potentially mis-selling funeral insurance. An ASIC investigation also found that phone-based sales practices ...

Australian corporate bond overhaul

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
... access barriers for small and medium enterprises, issuers, and retail investors. Reform to streamline and regularise disclosure requirements for the issuing of simple corporate bonds, particularly to ensure there is no duplication of requirements for ...

Former Dover adviser banned

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
... relevant circumstances resulting in their superannuation balances eroding. He also did not comply with the additional disclosure requirements when providing product switching advice. The conduct occurred while Sherwal was an authorised representative ...

APRA readies new super fund remuneration regime

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... ready to comply with the new requirements," he said. Next year, the prudential regulator will release new reporting and disclosure requirements on remuneration for consultation.

Industry slams Future Fund disclosure exemption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
The super industry is calling for mandated consistency on portfolio holdings disclosure after it was recommended the Future Fund be exempt from disclosing commercially sensitive information. The Senate Committee report released this week on disclosure ...