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Aged care costs begin to worry older Aussies

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
Older Australians are increasingly seeking financial advice in relation to aged care costs, new research from Challenger and National Seniors Australia shows. According to the study, calculating aged care costs has become a dominant concern for older ...

ASIC slaps Macquarie with record $5m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
ASIC imposed a record $5 million fine on Macquarie Bank for its failure to curb suspicious order transactions on electricity futures. ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) found Macquarie breached market integrity rules on 50 occasions between January ...

Court rejects Linchpin director appeal

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The Federal Court rejected former Linchpin Capital director Peter Daly's appeal, which will retain his banning order and force him to pay a fine. Justice Jackman yesterday upheld the judgment delivered in January, which imposed a $150,000 penalty ...

E&P Financial Group seeks to delist

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
The board of E&P Financial Group (EP1) is moving to delist from the ASX, claiming the company is materially undervalued thanks to the barrage of regulatory proceedings and class action litigation it faced in recent years. These issues have sustained ...

APRA calls out high-cost super platforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has put superannuation platform products under the microscope, saying their higher fees and costs are eroding members' retirement savings. Platform TDPs charged higher administration fees and costs ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
The regulator's recent crackdown on risk and compliance in the sector has product issuers stuck between a rock and a hard place, with an extreme dearth of talent making it difficult for fund managers and super funds to meet ASIC's expectations. Earlier ...

Inquiry urges government to consider paid reproductive leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
The Senate committee tasked with investigating issues related to menopause wants the government to research the efficacy of existing reproductive leave policies in Australia and overseas with consideration to introducing it in the National Employment ...

ASIC sees case against Rest thrown out

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
ASIC's case against Rest, in which it alleged the super fund misled members about their ability to transfer superannuation out of the fund, has been thrown out by the Federal Court. The case focused on Rest's past practices around rollover requests ...

Megatrends impacting portfolio construction: Mercer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
Mercer portfolios solutions leader Rebecca Jacques outlined some of the major trends investors need to take into consideration when building clients' portfolios at the Financial Standard Managed Accounts Forum. Jacques said there are several structural ...

Hanson backs Dixon Advisory inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
A public inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory will soon launch after the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) gained support from Senator Pauline Hanson in the senate yesterday. After pounding the pavement for months, the FAAA has successfully ...