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E&P Financial Group hit with class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021
Piper Alderman launched a class action against E&P Financial Group and its former chief executive Alan Dixon for allegedly providing conflicted financial advice and engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. The law firm has taken Dixon and E&P Financial ...

Financial Standard, Deakin University partner

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
Financial Standard and Deakin University have partnered to improve students' learning experience through the integration of financial advice continuing professional development (CPD), and education capabilities. Financial advisers completing CPD ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
It wasn't so long ago - before the COVID-19 pandemic struck to be precise - that every other central bank around the planet were hopin' and wishin' and prayin' for consumer price inflation to, at the very least, move higher to within ...

HESTA pushes for net zero legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2021
The federal government's refusal to commit to net zero by 2050 will lead to Australia losing a massive amount of green foreign investment, superannuation fund HESTA warned. At a recent Investor Group on Climate Change event, HESTA chief executive Debby ...

Australia improves super system quality

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
The quality of Australia's superannuation system made marginal improvements and scored highly for its integrity and sustainability, according to a global study. The Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index this year graded Australia a B+, slightly ...

What family offices want: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
KPMG Australia and The Table Club have produced a new report revealing how much growth family offices expect from investments and what they want from investment managers. The report found that the average wealth of an Australian family office is $1.12 ...

Super system "frayed": Hume

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
Minister for financial services Jane Hume said that the superannuation system in Australia has frayed edges in need of repairs, during a speech at the World Pension Summit 2021. "And while it's a system that wears three decades of alternations and add-ons ...

AustralianSuper acquires Qantas site

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
As part of a consortium, AustralianSuper will acquire a 14-hectare redevelopment site from Qantas Airways worth $802 million. AustralianSuper joined forces with logistics company LOGOS to take over the land, which is based in Mascot and located near ...

ASIC commences proceedings against Diversa

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
The regulator is taking Diversa Trustees to court over failing to maintain oversight of a now banned financial adviser. Diversa is the trustee for $1 billion Future Super, Mason Stevens Super, ING Super and MAP Master Super - later known as OneSuper ...

PFAN appoints chair, deputy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021
The Pro Bono Financial Advice Network (PFAN) named its latest chair and deputy chair as it moves to its next phase of purpose. Nicola Beswick has been appointed as chair while Natalie Kleibert will take on the role of deputy chair. Both will oversee ...