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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 ...

SMSF auditors in firing line

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... auditor will also have to provide a copy of the conditions to their professional association, complete specific courses of study, including in ethics and audit and pass the SMSF auditor competency exam. ASIC praised the Australian Taxation Office for ...

Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... Kong 9.2% and the US 7.8%. These latest figures are according to the Thinking Ahead Institute's Global Pension Assets Study. Australia remains one of the largest pension markets in the world as part of the P7 (the seven largest markets for pension ...

How to lose a mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... of their assets to external managers, with a majority using more than 20 managers. How long it takes to win a mandate The study also looked at how long it took for institutional investors to award a mandate, discovering new mandates can be awarded in ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus threatens Tokyo Olympics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... Japan's Olympic hopes will be dashed - the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is set to commence on July 24. A Bank of Japan (BOJ) study, titled Economic Impact of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, proclaimed that: "The government's target of 20 million foreign ...