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Super trustees on notice over fund disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... example: trustee directors' remuneration for the last two financial years, fund trust deeds and product disclosure statements, a summary of significant event notices sent to fund members in the last two years and a summary of how the trustee voted in ...

Disengaged members vulnerable in super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... the members smokes or not. ASIC also highlighted a number of key areas for improvement, including product disclosure statements, written reasons for decisions, product dashboards and other website content. "We now expect all trustees to review their ...

Life consumers influenced by premium pricing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... adviser on the other hand is fully underwritten, but requires a multi-page statement of advice and product disclosure statements consumers often don't read or understand. A policy that has limited underwriting at the time of purchase means the insurer ...

AMP Capital overhauls ESG investment strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... framework without compromising investment objectives. Divestment begins when AMP Capital updates product disclosure statements for impacted funds during 2017. External fund managers with impacted portfolios will be instructed to progressively sell down ...

CommInsure appoints independent review panel

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... definitions; the insurer is still in the process of notifying policyholders about these changes. "Our Product Disclosure Statements have been updated and we will also write to impacted policy holders by the end of June to tell them about the changes," ...

ASIC warns super trustees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Services Licence (AFSL). Trustees were also warned about the presentation of rollover forms attached to product disclosure statements that may have given new members the impression they were required to rollover their existing superannuation accounts ...

ASIC issues digital disclosure guidance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... preferences, with ever increasing numbers of people transacting digitally," he added. "The changes mean product disclosure statements (PDS) and other financial services disclosure documents will be delivered to consumers digitally as the default option ...

Queensland director banned for two years

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... 2014, David Hodgson of Exalt Global Funds Limited was found to have made misleading statements in product disclosure statements; did not keep proper financial records for the Paladin Monetizer Fund; and did not lodge several financial reports with ASIC. ...

Macquarie refunds $5.5m after 13-year system errors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... errors occurred in the Macquarie Wrap platform and included charging fees over the maximum amount in product disclosure statements and applying insufficient GST credits. Macquarie worked with ASIC, appointing independent consultant Deloitte, to investigate ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... involved in what was then called the prescribed interest regime or prospectuses, and we now know as product disclosure statements. That interest brought him under the umbrella of Citibank, which was then introducing its Citi Funds product in Australia ...