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Super funds failing on animal protection

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... animal cruelty, a global welfare organisation finds. After analysing 200 super funds, World Animal Protection found that 90% do not have a policy that prevents them from investing in animal cruelty. Only 16 currently have such policies. World Animal ...

Vanguard appoints new chief information officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
Vanguard Australia has announced the appointment of Aman Sahani as its new Asia Pacific chief information officer. In this role, Sahani will oversee Vanguard's Asia Pacific 200 strong IT division and lead the team. Sahani spent the last six years in ...

Mantis in new distribution partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
... them to maturity," Traynor said. Also commenting, Mantis partner and head of distribution Damien Hatfield said: "There are not too many asset classes out there today that offer liquidity, statutory title, underlying A-rated asset backing and tax credits ...

Magellan shuns turnaround companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... for the next 10 years, which would you own?" "[Think] about the business and how much conviction you have that you're not going to lose your money; it's 100% safe, you're pretty confident you are going to get a very high rate of return or ...

Vanguard move a win for SSGA, BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... as well that they [super funds] haven't shifted all their Vanguard business to their new investment managers, at least not yet," Dunnin added. A further mandate of $20 billion was awarded to SSGA by Sunsuper in November 2021. Vanguard is working ...

RI Advice slapped with $6m penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... also forced Doyle to pay an additional $80,000 in penalties. ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said the complex products were not suitable for Doyle's clients, many of whom were approaching retirement. "RI Advice should have been properly monitoring ...

FPA calls for stronger experience pathway

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
The Financial Planning Association of Australia said it does not agree with the proposed changes to the experience pathway, claiming it would undermine the road to professionalism. Newly appointed chief executive Sarah Abood criticised the federal government's ...

AFA opposes clean record requirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has said it does not support the 'clean record' requirement proposed within the government's new policy paper on education standards, citing the untested single disciplinary body. Under the proposed changes ...

Pinnacle folds boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... pandemic, Pinnacle received $1.2 million in JobKeeper payments over the course of two financial years, all which Pinnacle did not pay back but donated to its own foundation. Shareholders will receive a fully franked interim dividend of 17.5 cents, up ...

Consumer advocates criticise advice review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
The Consumer Action Law Centre has concerns that the Quality of Advice Review draft terms of references forget Commissioner Hayne's findings on conflicted remuneration. In the centre's submission on the review's draft terms of references, it argued ...