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ATO can make cost of advice cheaper: Asher

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
In a new paper from Actuaries Institute, Anthony Asher argues financial advice can be made cheaper if the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides some of the data necessary for good advice. Asher added that retirement incomes could rise by 15% to ...

AustralianSuper appoints head of financial crime

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... Standard's sister publication The Sustainability Report first reported. Garcia was also the chief executive of Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) for about four years, ending in 2017. As AustralianSuper's head of financial crime ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... would be the more equitable approach to funding government services, ensuring the beneficiary pays. The Real Estate Institute of Australia welcomed the call for reform, saying: "Taxes are one of the factors determining investment in housing and thus ...

Super reform should happen, but not now: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
The Grattan Institute has warned that now is not the time to enact sweeping reforms as the nation battles the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief executive of the Grattan Institute John Daley said policy priorities need to reflect the new ...

ClearView announces board changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... Lyon has held a number of senior and director positions including non-executive director and president of the Actuaries Institute of Australia and managing director of Qed Actuarial. She has also worked at AMP and Towers Perrin in superannuation and ...

Trust in advisers wanes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... strengthening of the best interest duty. A global investor survey, conducted at the back end of last year by the CFA Institute, shows Australia rank sixth out of 15 major markets when it comes to trust in financial services - just 24% of Aussie investors ...

At least $70bn more in stimulus needed: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... fiscal stimulus over the next two years if it wants to return the economy to full employment, a new report from Grattan Institute says. The $70 billion to $90 billion required accounts for 3% to 4% of the GDP. And it is on top of the $160 billion that ...

AIST celebrates Trustee of the Year

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
Former president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees and director of two industry super funds, David Smith, has been posthumously awarded the award for Trustee of the Year. The AIST honoured Smith at its annual general meeting yesterday ...

Pendal bolsters ESG fixed income capability

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... trading capacity for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and Sydney. Finally, the firm added a new ESG credit analyst, former Institute for Economics and Peace research fellow Murray Ackman. Ackman will work across the firm's range of credit funds, with an emphasis ...

Industry fund drops Rio Tinto amid sacred site outcry

HARRISON WORLEY, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Rio Tinto has been excluded from two portfolio options of a major industry superannuation fund following its destruction of 46,000 year old Indigenous heritage sites at Juukan Gorge last month. First State Super has dropped Rio Tinto from the diversified ...