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Link faces another lawsuit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... to yank out funds. It garnered global attention in 2019 when its fund manager Neil Woodford made a YouTube apology for its poor performance and liquidity concerns. "When the fund began underperforming from late 2016, increasing numbers of investors made ...

Aged care RC unveils 148 recommendations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... inquiry identified include inadequate funding, variable provider governance and behaviour, lack leadership and governance, and poor access to health care. Another is the difficulty of accessing and navigating the system. "People trying to get aged care ...

Most ethical companies revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
Ethisphere has released a list of the world's most ethical publicly traded companies, and has claimed that these companies outperformed a comparable index by 7.1% over the last five years. "Honorees integrate ethics and values with corporate strategy. ...

ASIC zeroes in on bad SMSF advice, conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... recent SMSF Association's National Conference via video link that several key projects are progressing to address the poor advice and behaviours that remain active in the SMSF sector. The watchdog is taking the appropriate actions against any misleading ...

Australia sweeps pension market rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... is a missed opportunity for the system is "to influence and mitigate corporate misalignments like executive pay, and other poor leadership and boardroom practices". In aggregate, Australia is one of the seven nations that accounted for 92% of pension ...

The trouble with best financial interests duty

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
The best financial interests duty reform has major loopholes and lacks guidance from regulators, leading to major confusion for superannuation trustees. The fourth element of the proposed Your Future, Your Super reforms should be abandoned, according ...

ASIC imposes licence conditions on Poynter Hargraves

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... it to remove its sole responsible manager. "This follows a targeted surveillance by ASIC that found Poynter Hargraves had poor risk controls around conflict management and was not adequately monitoring and supervising its representatives," ASIC said. ...

Diversa, BetaShares relationship probed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... approximately $10.5 million, as problematic. "Cleanaway Waste Management, which has repeatedly been fined by the EPA for poor behaviour, is that [investment] really inline with the mandate that you are seeking to market yourself with?" Wilson said. Hosain ...

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... impossible for members to understand what's being reported or do any meaningful comparison between funds, and that's pretty poor," Gocher said. "You'd think standardising and mandating that kind of data reporting would be something simple to do. Most ...

Reference checks should cover all advice: FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... same obligations as mortgage brokers (Recommendation 1.6). Commissioner Kenneth Hayne slammed the advice industry for its poor background-checking practices, urging it to follow in the footsteps of the ABA. The inquiry found licensees frequently failed ...