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AustralianSuper PYS fee under scrutiny again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... Protecting Your Super' to cover the cost of the fund complying with new legislation. At the Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee, Corporations and Financial Services Senator Andrew Bragg asked ASIC commissioner Danielle Press how ASIC's review ...

Litigation funding fight heats up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
The Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee, Corporations and Financial Services looking into litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry sparked a heated debate today. Menzies Research Centre chief of staff James Mathias was questioned ...

Calls to investigate treatment of AMP advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... this matter, as I understand theAMP banking arm has funded the operation, and to prepare a full report for the Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services oversight hearing on July 13," she said. A spokesperson for AMP said that the decision ...

Litigation funders will need AFSLs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... funder, the merged Omni Bridgeway and IMF Bentham supported the call for regulation last week as the parliamentary joint committee inquiry into class actions and litigation funding got underway. "As the pioneer of litigation funding in Australia, Omni ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... calculated the impact of the ERS initiative on retirement balances of super fund members, a response to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services question on notice reveals. ASIC was asked by Liberal Senator and Committee ...

Calls for super funds, government to collaborate on energy security

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... since 2011. He authored three reports for NRMA, assisted with a 2015 senate enquiry and with a 2018 parliamentary joint committee. "We should be thinking about some of our superannuation funds investing in this, with government agreement for long-term ...

Super funds probed on liquidity, rental assistance measures

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... their in-house modelling on the extent of withdrawals (to March 1 deadline). It did not publish the result, but put out a joint letter with ASIC reminding funds to take liquidity issues seriously. Further, the committee's letter wants to know the proportion ...

A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... concessions, removing the $450 threshold for SG payments, consider providing tax deductibility of financial planning and allow joint super accounts for married couples, amongst other things. Rice Warner said it is not solely the responsibility of the ...

HUB24 appoints interim chief financial officer

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
Wealth management platform HUB24 has appointed a new interim chief financial officer and joint company secretary following the incumbent's resignation in December last year. Debbie Last has nabbed the role, effective today, and brings with her 25 years ...

Investment firm nabs former BlackRock fundie

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... role at Strategic Financial Management, Carter spent a brief period with boutique fund manager SG Hiscock & Company as a joint portfolio manager of unlisted property. Prior to this, she spent 11 years with BlackRock as a fund manager. At BlackRock, Carter ...