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Super fund PDSs to include single cost of product figure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... disclosure supports better decision-making by consumers and the advisers who assist them." ASIC said its next step would be to focus on fees and costs disclosure on platform arrangements next year, with industry bodies set to work with the corporate ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... legislation in the United States and the Australian Banking Association calling for a national protective strategy. "The focus should be on client safety and security, protecting the dignity of the client," McGowan said. "Perpetrator tactics can begin ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... debate over whether the system is cheap or not. Dunnin's comments come after the OECD published it's Pension Markets in Focus report at the end of October, which used APRA figures to declare Australian super members are charged just 0.5% of total assets ...

Above and beyond: Planner excellence recognised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... client understanding and delivering on service promises, Capital Partners brings a clear set of guiding principles which focus on the financial capacity and empowerment of its clients." Meanwhile, the FPA Financial Planner AFP® of the Year Award went ...

How much a self-licensee spends on compliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... small practices. Her practice has three planners and she leads the client side. "You can run a one-man band but you have to focus on information and procedures and outsource some functions. It also helps to get other advisers' guidance," she said ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...

CommInsure cops $700k hawking fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
CommInsure has been fined $700,000 after pleading guilty to hawking offences. The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society - a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary trading as CommInsure - has been convicted of 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products ...

Superestate eyes property mandates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... savings - the business's long-term growth would come from elsewhere. "When I think about the business longer term, I think our focus will probably shift a lot more to the investment management side and rather work with some of the big industry players ...

Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... super funds but the fee cuts are more along the range of one to two basis points. "Generally speaking, super funds do have a focus on fee reduction and we have seen that increase over the last one or two years and fixed income is no different," Moore ...

Perpetual expands risk advisory capabilities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... specialist risk advisory business. Perpetual has acquired Priority Life, a specialist risk advisory business with a strong focus on medical practitioners, professionals and business owners, to strengthen its risk advisory capabilities for private clients. ...