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Results out: 13 funds fail YFYS performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... passed), but both funds scrapped the plans last week. "Trustees of the 13 products that failed the test now face an important choice: they can urgently make the improvements needed to ensure they pass next year's test or start planning to transfer ...

FPA appoints FPEC chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... the standard of financial planning education and promoting financial planning as a distinct learning area and a career of choice.

First YFYS performance test results weeks away

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... failing again the following APRA will continue to publish its heatmaps with the next one out in November and will include Choice products (which are not subject to the YFYS performance test despite Labor's push to do so. This will be followed by ...

Superhero launches super offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... superannuation is invested," Superhero co-founder and chief executive John Winters said. "A lack of transparency and investment choice has left younger Australians feeling disengaged with their super despite being very engaged in other areas of their ...

Spaceship hits $1bn in total assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... higher-margin superannuation product, and is expecting cashflows to break even by 2023, which is five years into its life. As a Choice product with no employer relations, Spaceship's superannuation fund is immune to the new stapling and performance benchmarking ...

Morningstar launches fee comparison tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... is launching a new tool that provides increased transparency and disclosure on fees across its investments and superannuation products, well above what RG97 requires. The Morningstar Total Cost Ratio (TCR), which will be rolled out on August 31, drills ...

FSC launches DDO templates

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
... available for life insurance; income protection insurance; trauma insurance; TPD insurance; superannuation master trusts (choice products); superannuation wraps; funds management (covering ETPs and LICs); and managed accounts. "Eighteen months ago we ...

ASIC takes action against Equiti

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
... broking business Equiti Finance. ASIC alleges that the bonus payments influenced the financial product advice provided or the choice of financial product recommended by Equiti FS advisers to retail clients. ASIC also claims that between 18 May 2015 and ...

Super fund ventures into robo-advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... is also used by funds like Intrust Super, promises a personalised approach to delivering advice relating to investment choice, insurance, projected retirement needs and contributions. Legalsuper chief executive Andrew Proebstl said extending the partnership ...

Aged care expenditure to jump 37%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... regarding the quality of care patients are receiving, imposing service level benchmarks on providers and introducing better choice and control mechanisms. The My Aged Care website and contact centres will receive extra attention through the imposition ...