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Members still lack group insurance awareness: MetLife

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... caught unexpectedly without cover, so we're committed to working with the industry to increase and simplify communication about insurance inside super. "We want to help Australians understand that it exists, why it exists and to be confident to make ...

ASIC clamps down on poor advice, grandfathered commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... institutions' departure from the sector," ASIC said. In terms of key projects in superannuation, ASIC wants to enhance its communication to superannuation trustees and their associated advisers by providing more accessible information about the work ...

Wealth projection boosts super fund engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... "These results are important evidence that superannuation member disengagement can be partly improved by clearer communication," he said.

Inaugural FASEA exam results in

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... in three areas: financial advice regulatory and legal obligations; applied ethical and professional reasoning and communication; and financial advice construction. Under new financial adviser requirements within the Corporations Act 2001, advisers must ...

Boutique fund manager names chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
A $14 billion boutique investment manager will welcome a new chief executive and managing director. Maple-Brown Abbott has appointed Sophia Rahmani to lead the business, effective October 14. She joins from Janus Henderson where she was most recently ...

YouTube fundie called out by FCA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has criticised Neil Woodford who famously issued a tearful YouTube apology to investors whose money was frozen in one of his funds. Woodford Investment Management suspended trading in its Woodford Equity Income Fund ...

FPA launches Tinder for advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... Match My Planner aims to facilitate open conversations between consumers and FPA members to enhance client trust and communication. "We have built a new tool which is effectively the world's first dating app for consumers connecting with a financial ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... narrow market environment and significant underexposure to key large cap stocks in the financials, materials and communication services sectors," he said. Some managers with a negative market view held high cash levels. Additionally, the reversal in ...

APRA endorses review recommendations

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
APRA said it welcomes the Capability Review's "ambitious agenda" that aims to shakeup its culture and enforcement powers. Of the 24 recommendations from the Graeme Samuels-led Capability Review, APRA is endorsing the 19 recommendations dedicated ...

APRA forced to overhaul culture, capabilities

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... "inefficient," particularly when it comes to system efficiency, fees and transparency. It was then slammed for its poor communication of superannuation matters to the public. This means being more transparent by publishing objective benchmarks for superannuation ...