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Academics protest UniSuper investments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... advocacy group Market Forces, university academics are today protesting against what they describe as UniSuper's "continued funding of fossil fuel expansion". Market Forces said the protest - organised to take place at a Universities Australia event ...

IOOF faces new class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... brought against IOOF by APRA, instead focussing on alleged misconduct within IOOF from 2009 to 2015. Litigation Lending is funding the action. "The Financial Services Royal Commission and other enquiries have revealed extensive wrongdoing within the ...

Super tax concessions out of hand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... aged pension itself." Grudnoff added such high rates of poverty in retirement are in part because so much of the taxpayer funding for retirement incomes "goes to high income households" in the form of superannuation tax concessions. "The rapid growth ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... problems). In ex-RBA governor Glenn Stevens' parlance, the RBA has allowed the horse to come to the water of cheap funding, but it still refuses to drink. Certainly, no business in its right mind would expand investment in plants, equipment or staff ...

TCorp issues first Euro bond

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... a 30-year EUR60 million fixed rate note earlier this week, priced at 0.609% and due on 24 February 2050. TCorp head of funding and balance sheet Fiona Trigona noted the interest within Europe for the debt TCorp was offering. "Previously we've issued ...

FSC calls for CSLR claims cap

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... their consumer compensation obligations." It recommended that data be collected to build this financial services provider funding approach. "Unpaid determination data should be collected from the outset to enable the CSLR to move to a financial services ...

AMP faces fresh class action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... incentives for recommending their clients purchase insurance through AMP Life, has been funded by Woodsford Litigation Funding. Woodsford has also bankrolled the class action against Colonial First State over "excessive" insurance premiums on super products ...

Separate advice and product: AIOFP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... proposes each adviser pays $250 per annum, upfront two years in advance. Each AFSL holder pays 0.5% of gross revenue with a funding cap established. And for the product scheme, each provider pays a lump sum upfront on a sliding FUA scale and a percentage ...

Bonds not out of the game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... economic challenges. "Money is agnostic, and it searches the globe for the best rate that can be achieved which means if bank funding costs reduce, then their desire for expensive, as far as banks are concerned, term deposits decreases, meaning all types ...

Retirement funding system failing: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
The specialist retirement funding provider completed its submission to the Retirement Income Review in response to the government's consultation paper released late last year. The report said the purpose of the review is to ascertain the degree ...