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Major economies buoyed by tight jobs market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2023
... regarding the debt ceiling and budget without causing significant market turmoil. There is now an improved chance that the Fed will achieve the much-vaunted soft landing," he said. In the UK, the tight labour market continues to keep nominal wage growth ...

Trustees lack urgency, strategy on RIC: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
A joint regulatory review finds that superannuation funds are shrugging off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and are failing to integrate this mandate into their business plans. One year since the Retirement Income Covenant took ...

KPMG recommends gender-focused super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
KPMG has proposed superannuation reforms targeted at home carers and recipients of paid parental leave to help close the gender gap. The KPMG Towards Gender Equity in Retirement report recommended the government consider adding superannuation contributions ...

US regulators launch investigation into OpenAI

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research firm that owns ChatGBT, to evaluate possible negligence and consumer harm. In a 20-page document sent to the Microsoft-backed AI firm, regulators demanded ...

Federated Hermes secures $486m for private equity fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023
Federated Hermes has closed its fifth private equity co-investment fund (PEC V), exceeding its initial fundraising target by a substantial margin. The fund, which was launched in December 2021 with a target of $400 million, closed last month with a ...

Federal Reserve plans upping capital requirements

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
The US Federal Reserve has proposed a regulatory overhaul in which the nation's largest banks would be forced to hold more capital in hopes future meltdowns in the sector can be prevented. Federal vice chair for supervision Michael Barr outlined ...

AMP loses BOLR changes class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
The Federal Court this morning has ruled in favour of disgruntled AMP Financial Planning advisers who saw the value of their practices deteriorate after the parent company controversially changed its Buyer of Last Resort (BOLR) rules. In handing down ...

Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
The disgraced director of Select AFSL, the company the Hayne Royal Commission exposed for hawking life and funeral insurance to vulnerable customers, has been banned from managing a company for five years, while his companies were fined $13.5 million. ...

ASIC deepens investigation into Magnolia founder

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2023
The Federal Court has extended the travel ban on Magnolia Capital's founder as he faces an ASIC investigation that alleges $40 million of investor money has gone missing. Mitchell Atkins, also the managing director and chief investment officer of Magnolia ...

Jones lifts adviser levy freeze, updates funding model

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
The federal government will lift the financial adviser levy freeze as it unveils recommendations that make minor changes to the industry funding model following a review. Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones yesterday ...