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Employers unaware of YFYS, stapling: Study

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
More than half of employers are clueless on what the Your Future, Your Super reforms - including stapling - mean and how to comply, according to new research. The study, commissioned by consumer experience consultancy CSBA and Fund Executives Association ...

Lending curbs to impact housing market

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia has suggested it may shift policy to cool the property market in 2022, likely to result in homebuyers being able to borrow less. BuyersBuyers co-founder Pete Wargent said that this time around the rules will mostly impact ...

Failing Asgard super option to close

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
After failing the inaugural Your Future, Your Super performance test, Asgard Employee Super will shutter next month, with many members being transferred to BT's Retirement Wrap. Members of the fund were actually notified ahead of the performance ...

New leadership at Zurich Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
Zurich Life & Investments has made three senior leadership appointments to its group insurance team. Francis Burgess will join Zurich Life & Investments in the newly created role of head of pricing, group insurance. He joins from TAL, where he was head ...

Actuary of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
The Actuaries Institute named the principal at Sydney-based actuarial consultancy Taylor Fry as the 2021 Actuary of the Year for his work on social issues. Hugh Miller focuses on using data and complex analysis to improve public policy outcomes including ...

Hybrid advice is here to stay

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
A hybrid delivery model of financial advice is not going anywhere as building relationships with clients remains crucial. Speaking at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Conference, intelliflo chief sales officer UK & Australia Johann Koch reiterated ...

More advisers switching practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
Nearly 1700 financial advisers jumped from one practice to another in the year to August, Rainmaker's adviser movements pipeline shows. The newly launched database found 1689 advisers moved from one employer to another, while the month to August saw ...

UHNWs see net zero as business opportunity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
The super-rich are committed to addressing climate change, especially when there's a profit to be made in the process. New research from Barclays Private, Campden Wealth and Global Impact Solutions Today sought the opinions of 300 of the wealthiest ...

ATO will not pursue erroneous JobKeeper payments

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
The Australian Tax Office announced it will not pursue businesses that took advantage of JobKeeper despite raking in large profits, nor will it ask small businesses to repay $180 million claimed in error. The ATO revealed that over one million businesses ...

Economic recap: Week to September 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is concerned but not alarmed at the growing cases of Delta variant infections that's wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihood in Australia's two biggest states - New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC). ...