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Plans afoot to narrow gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... government has announced a suite of measures aimed at narrowing the gender pay gap, including requiring the Fair Work Commission to consider gender equity when formulating minimum wages. According to Budget documents, this year marks the first that the ...

Andrew Hagger leaves Tattarang

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... leaving NAB where he was chief customer officer for more than a decade. His departure followed a grilling at the Royal Commission which resulted in him being personally investigated by ASIC for a time. Hartman said he is excited to be taking on the new ...

Members stick with dud super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... the heat up on funds that are clearing the minimum bar of the performance test," O'Halloran said. "The Productivity Commission outlined the test was designed to remove the tail of underperformance; the next step is to drive healthy competition among ...

QAR could see 12% increase in insured Aussies

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
According to research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC), the introduction of a scalable advice model for life insurance would see more than a million Australians have the life insurance cover they need. Research by NMG Consulting ...

TPB, bans dishonest tax agents

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) terminated the registration of two tax agents after finding they prepared and lodged self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) annual returns with incorrect details. Following an Australian Taxation Office (ATO) referral ...

Data sharing laws updated in response to Optus breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... Entities that wish to receive the data must provide written commitments to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission that they will obey all their obligations under the legislation and, once no longer needed, destroy all the information. They ...

APRA unmasks fund outsourcing impacts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022
... thematic review on outsourcing arrangements in the superannuation industry found that trustees' efforts since the Royal Commission have resulted in stronger board oversight and monitoring of outsourcing arrangements and service providers. The thematic ...

Throw out financial services law clutter: ALRC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
The Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) second interim report to reduce complexity in financial services legislation proposes an alternative model that's more coherent and principled, and "embraces minimalism." The ALRC's proposed legislative ...

Members want super funds to adopt crypto: Survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022
Nearly a quarter of Australia's general populous say they'd like their super fund to include crypto, according to the second annual Swyftx Cryptocurrency survey. Among current crypto owners, this figure swells to 66%. Comparatively, last year's ...

More consolidation is needed, says Diverger chief

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... told Financial Standard. Jacobsen said some of the challenges that the industry faced in the past and led to the Royal Commission are related to the advice infrastructure that was used. "When I look back, one of the things that we got wrong was we didn't ...