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AMP MySuper options power past double-digit returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... sustainable investment returns over the long term, she said. "We will be implementing our annual strategic asset allocation review later in the year to ensure our portfolios can continue to help more Australians retire with confidence," she said.

APRA heightens expectations around trustees' spending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... expenditure management framework, including board oversight, alignment with strategic objectives, and active monitoring and review. It also outlines APRA's view that better practice is for trustees to ensure senior executives annually attest to taking ...

Retirement Income Covenant still weak: APRA, ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... identified by trustees were expected to be completed by mid-2024." The findings follow one year from their joint regulatory review that found trustees shrugged off the urgency to offer robust retirement income strategies and failed to integrate this ...

ASIC takes action against Guildfords FM, director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... day-to-day operation of the schemes, ASIC said. Guildfords has the right to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to review ASIC's decisions.

APRA: RSE licensees show 'common areas of weakness'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... letter to all registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees sharing the initial observations from its targeted thematic review of the superannuation industry's preparedness for Prudential Standard CPS 190 Recovery and Exit Planning (CPS 190). ...

Four out of five workers to search for new jobs: Hays

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
... driving employee demand for increased pay rises. This comes as 86% of employers plan to increase salaries in their next review. However, only 49% of employers in NSW intend to provide pay rises exceeding 3%. Hays chief executive of APAC Mathew Dickason ...

Financial advice profession 'lacks consistent protocols'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
The financial advice profession "lacks consistent protocols" for handling suspected financial abuse and there are insufficient whistleblower protections, according to the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA). In its submission to the Parliamentary ...

Former AMP advice lead sues The Australian

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... then departed the group suddenly after less than two years, following a story which appeared in the Australian Financial Review alleging misconduct.

Super account advice fees a sticking point for advice bill: Senate inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... March 27. The committee discussed 11 recommendations from the DBFO's predecessor, Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR), which form the basis of the bill. These included suggestions to consolidate administrative steps in obtaining clients' ...

Ascot Securities hit with infringement notice for 'serious failures'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
... clients. The panel also considered that the deficiencies in Ascot's policies and procedures were exacerbated by its failure to review and update those policies, despite senior compliance staff considered them to be deficient. As a result, the MDP considered ...