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ASIC takes civil action against Firstmac

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
ASIC has commenced the first ever court case against a financial product distributor for alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations (DDO). The regulator commenced the civil penalty action in the Federal Court against Firstmac Limited following ...

Adviser imprisoned for super fraud

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
Former Perth financial adviser Rahul Goel has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing over $35,000 from his clients' superannuation accounts. An ASIC investigation into Goel's misconduct found that between November 2018 and July 2019, the ...

Former Statewide Super executives charged

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2022
Two former senior Statewide Superannuation executives have appeared before the Adelaide Magistrates' Court charged with dishonesty offences. The offences relate to the former Statewide Super executive's procurement of services between February ...

DASS clients pushed to accept paltry recoupment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2022
Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services administrators have said it's in the best interest of the failed group's creditors to vote in favour of a proposed deed of company arrangement that would see them receiving as little as 3.1 cents on ...

ASIC case against Commonwealth Bank dismissed

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
The Federal Court has dismissed proceedings brought by ASIC against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) over fees. The court dropped allegations that the bank engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, made false or misleading representations ...

Affordable housing investments a win-win: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
A Frontier Advisors report ' Super in the Economy ' commissioned by ISA says that affordable housing's longer-term leases backed by government guarantee and low vacancy rates will deliver stable long-term returns that are resistant against ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is paying US$4 million to settle charges brought by the US regulator over failures involving ESG research used to select investments. It comes as the US government reverses limitations placed on some pension funds in relation ...

Private market investment impediments not insurmountable: Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
Frontier's ' Super in the Economy ' report says super funds haven't invested more capital into private markets because of the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) performance test and that there are opportunities to create further investment in the sector. ...

Federal Reserve raises rates 0.75%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
... bank's decision, the federal funds rate benchmark sits between 3.75% and 4%. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the Fed is moving its policy stance purposefully to a level that will be sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2%. In addition ...

Central banks to tighten on all sides: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
All eyes are on the Fed as it's set for another fourth straight 75bp hike, and central banks are taking a "whatever it takes" approach to pushing inflation back down to their targets, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). The European ...