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Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Superannuation funds are set to permanently avoid negative tax outcomes upon merging, after an amendment bill sailed through parliament yesterday. While the FASEA extension stalled yesterday, the parliament successfully shepherded the government's Treasury ...

ESG investing to remain strong through pandemic

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Despite COVID-19 shaking the world to its core, the themes underpinning ESG investing are not about to change, according to a global asset manager. Having destroyed the best laid plans of investors the world over, investment managers are asking how ...

Practice valuations avoid COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Financial advisers looking to sell their business in the midst of COVID-19 would be wise not to accept discounted offers, with experts saying the pandemic has barely touched the market. Speaking with Financial Standard, Radar Results founder John Birt ...

Super must come together over cybercrime

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
The oversight body of the Superannuation Transaction Network is calling on super funds to work together to thwart the threat of cybercrime. Addressing the Association of Super Funds of Australia, GNGB executive officer Michelle Bower has urged the super ...

Mudslinging over FASEA extension continues

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Labor has slammed the Association of Financial Advisers for spouting untruths over the path of the FASEA extension bill through the Senate. Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Assistant Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones told Financial ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Industry Super Australia has been forced to revise the modelling underpinning their calculations of the impact of the government's Early Release Scheme on retirement balances. An ASIC missive caused the peak body for industry superannuation to reconsider ...

ASIC bans RC case study adviser

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
A former Millennium3 adviser whose advice was cited as a case study during the Royal Commission is set to appeal a 10-year ban handed down by ASIC. ASIC has banned Adelaide-based adviser Christopher Norman Harris from providing financial services for ...

Advisers split on COVID-19 opportunity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
New research shows financial advisers are split down the middle when it comes to deciding whether COVID-19 is an opportunity to pick up new business, or a time to focus on existing clients. Latest MLC Wealth analysis found that the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Suncorp wealth head departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Suncorp is again searching for a new banking and wealth chief executive, after the incumbent lasted just three months. Lee Hatton will leave the Queensland bank at the end of the month, bringing her tenure as chief executive of Suncorp's banking and ...

Government delays RC implementation timeline

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
The government has deferred the implementation of Royal Commission recommendations by six months. The amended timetable sees measures the government was committed to deliver by June 30 set to arrive by December, and measures scheduled for December now ...