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Former Spectrum chief cops additional bans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
Former Spectrum Wealth Advisers chief executive Mark Schroeder has been slapped with banning orders in addition to his six-year ban from providing financial services. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal amended ASIC's banning order that was handed down ...

ABPs alone won't meet retirement income covenant: Knox

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... could be one cohort with individual tailoring. It's a long way down the track, but you've got to think [on] that spectrum into the future," he said. Financial Standard is the official media partner of AIST's Super Investment Conference for ...

Greater scrutiny of choice products needed: Scheerlinck

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... from performance testing. The choice sector has been described by APRA as being at the "poorer-performing end of the spectrum", Scheerlinck noted. "While it's important to be performance testing MySuper funds, we need to recognise that this is the ...

NAB fined $18.5m over misleading fee disclosure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
... penalty is higher than the penalty proposed by NAB, reflecting my view that the contravening conduct was not at the lower spectrum of seriousness..." Over the course of the action, which was commenced in December 2019, NAB did admit to several of the ...

Evergreen launches RI index

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... products for their clients. ERIG uses the Responsible Investment Association Australasia's (RIAA) Responsible Investment Spectrum as a foundation. RIAA sets out seven RI capabilities: ESG integration; negative screening; norms-based screening; active ...

Advice association shutters

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... exam. And, in October 2019, the association said it was lobbying parliament to retain life insurance commissions. Former Spectrum chief executive Mark Schroeder was one of the organisers within the UFAA. He was banned by ASIC in February 2020 for the ...

AMP Capital fails to stop fund merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... and diversified property funds for institutional and direct investors, as well as separate mandates, across the risk spectrum. "Real estate remains an integral part of AMP Capital's Private Markets business, which is about to embark on a separation ...

Wholesale funds recover losses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... at $1.2 trillion. Pendal and Challenger led the FUM growth with 39.5% and 20.5% respectively. On the other end of the spectrum NAB/MLC recorded a 15.6% loss and Vanguard fell 9.4%. State Street Global Advisors recorded 4.9% FUM growth followed by Victoria ...

Risk inflows stagnant, satisfaction varies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... followed by Medibank (81.9%), Zurich (77.6%), Westpac (74.5%), MLC Life (74.4%) and AIA (71.3%). On the lower end of the spectrum was TAL Group at 67.2% and AMP at 54.4%. "A customer satisfaction gap of 32.9% across the industry, from the top-rated provider ...

Zero rates causing risky business: Pengana

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... it triples the stock price." Fisher explained that Pengana has been trying to invest at both ends of the wealth divide spectrum and is staying away from the crowded space in the middle. "We are looking to invest in companies that can benefit from the ...