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Rice Warner questions super return targets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... layperson would not understand the peer differences in asset allocation and risks taken; the information in MySuper disclosure documents necessarily is dumbed down to meet broad community levels of financial illiteracy," Rice Warner said. "These metrics ...

New requirements for SMSFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
The Australian Taxation Office has announced new accounting requirements for SMSFs, which will come into effect 1 July 2021. New accounting standard AASB 2020-2 has been released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and will come into ...

Fixed income investors get new ESG rating

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... passed the USD$1 trillion mark. This market is ripe with opportunities, yet large parts remain obscured by low levels of disclosure, creating challenges around comparability and concerns of 'impact washing'." Of the 126 new impact bonds analysed in 2019 ...

Judgement delivered in binary options fraud

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... collect funds from Australian customers using two trading websites. Ida and Senese also failed to issue necessary product disclosure statements for each binary option trade conducted, ASIC said, in contravention of the Corporations Act. Based in Seychelles ...

Platform prototypes compliance capability

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... generated by advice practices (for example in SOAs or ROAs), he said, and tests risk-related indicators such as fee disclosure statements and investment strategies. This includes something as granular as whether a client's money is invested according ...

ASIC lays out product intervention plans

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... deems something to be so amiss. ASIC will also be able to order the amendment, restriction or banning of marketing and disclosure material for products, and may bring an end to specific remuneration arrangements which are linked to product distribution. ...

ASIC warns funds to clean up adverts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... funds with a total of $2.5 billion in assets to take "corrective action", including culling old advertising, product disclosure statements and webpages comparing products to lower-risk products. The regulator also asked the seven responsible entities ...

Sam Henderson in court over phantom degree

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... announced Henderson has been charged with three counts of dishonest conduct and two counts of knowingly giving a defective disclosure document. Henderson falsely claimed he had a master in commerce in PowerPoint presentations he gave to prospective clients ...

Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... earned a special mention in the ACCR report, as the only two funds to vote against shareholder proposals seeking greater disclosure on gender pay equity at companies whose employees are fund members (Adobe Systems and TJX Companies). Local Government ...

Government offers guidance provision relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... for missing financial guidance targets for the next six months, after the government temporarily amended continuous disclosure provisions to help firms through COVID-19. The amendments, introduced today, ensure companies and their officers are only liable ...