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Treasury initiates review post RC

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced an immediate review into how financial counselling services are funded and co-ordinated. Financial counselling services are provided by the Department of Social Services with a commitment that totals $64 ...

Royal Commission sobering and overdue: Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... banking and financial services sector." He believes if the current government were competent, they would get straight to task on submitting legislation to parliament that would have bipartisan support. "This is the Royal Commission Scott Morrison did ...

Institutions respond to Royal Commission, make commitments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
Australia's largest financial institutions said they are committed to improvement following the release of Royal Commission's final report. Landing yesterday, the report was scathing in its assessment of banking executives. Commissioner Hayne said the ...

Harder for insurers to dodge claims

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
Insurers will find it tougher to dodge paying out claims if the Royal Commission's recommendation to amend insurance law is enacted. At the round six hearings of the Royal Commission, it was revealed that CommInsure used outdated medical definitions ...

Challenger boutique appoints chief operating officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
A $10.5 billion boutique in Challenger's multi-affiliate investment arm has appointed a chief operating officer. Tracy Kellett is joining fixed income manager Ardea Investment Management as its first chief operating officer. Kellett is well known ...

MLC drops wrap and super admin fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
MLC Wealth chief executive Geoff Lloyd is making his biggest call since joining the group five months ago, slashing wrap administration fees to run one of the cheapest platforms in Australia. Additionally, Lloyd is lowering administration fees for the ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
Parametric have taken the final Productivity Commission report into superannuation to task in its latest research report. According to the firm, the PC missed an opportunity to highlight how super members retiring on after-tax returns are penalised ...

PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission is calling for an independent public inquiry into group insurance and floated the possibility of tougher regulation that includes sharper ASIC oversight, among other recommendations. Recommendation 18 in the Productivity ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Australia's superannuation sector in trying to digest the Productivity Commission's 700-page report with its 31 recommendations need to keep in mind the massive structural problems it is trying to fix. The fundamental problem that has perplexed ...

Productivity Commission shakes up default superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission reinforced several recommendations flagged in mid-2018 in a bid to modernise the $2.7 trillion industry, which included shaking up the default sector. The Commission handed down 31 recommendations in its final report in assessing ...