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Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... the end of 2019, before the effects of the pandemic reached Australian shores, Willis Towers Watson and TCorp conducted a study into current and future allocation practices, finding that investment approaches were in a phase of change. Asset owners ...

Australians hate complexity, not annuities: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... product in the market simply by default or out of ignorance, rather than actual preference." When the researchers asked study participants to choose between two annuity products though, they ran into problems. The consumers found the choice over complicated ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... market, as all provide basic protections for investors, it said. Morningstar head of policy research and co-author of the study Aron Szapiro said the world's financial leaders had been slow in their implementation of effective regulatory reform. "When ...

SMSF auditors come under fire

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... part of the conditions, ASIC has ordered Cuthbertson to undertake a peer review process for his audits, complete further study (including ethics and audit) and pass a SMSF competency exam. Heasman also must undertake a peer review process for his audits ...

Could relief on advice compliance save consumers?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
Panicked, stressed people are making rash decisions and falling victim to scams as they navigate the economic fallout of COVID-19 - but compliance has left some financial advisers and service providers feeling hamstrung in helping. Meg Heffron, managing ...

Time for financials to step up: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... finance sector has a key role to play in generating positive social, environmental and economic outcomes for the nation. The study comes out of Australian Ethical and Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), who surveyed more than 1000 ...

Frontier warns super fund clients of recession

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... than -1% for both short-term and extended COVID-19 impact), OECD, Capital Economics and Oxford, but in line with another study published by Warwick McKibbin and Roshen Fernando. "The main message is that there is a degree of uncertainty. It [COVID-19] ...

Call for pause on default insurance changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
A prominent law firm is calling for upcoming changes to default insurance within superannuation to be postponed, as the COVID-19 pandemic increases the chance Australians will need to rely on the cover automatically provided by their super fund. Slater ...

Major firms criticised for substandard RI approach

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... managers are putting their money where their mouth is." ShareAction senior analyst Felix Nagrawala said the 2020 edition of the study was the organisation's "most ambitious" yet, and revealed which asset managers walked the talk on ESG issues among. ...

Advice important for family conscious: Perpetual

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... Australians who say they care about their family the most have an active relationship with their financial adviser, according to a study by Perpetual. Based on the research, Perpetual said it is clear that family is a priority for many Australians and ...