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AMP North adds portfolios

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
AMP has added new risk profile options to the MyNorth Sustainable and Zenith ranges. The current MyNorth Sustainable Managed Portfolio Balanced profile has added moderately conservative and moderately aggressive risk profiles for clients. The guiding ...

Former Hillross adviser pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Wael Kourieh, who was an authorised representative of Hillross between 2010 and 2016, has plead guilty to false document charges following an ASIC investigation. Kourieh pleaded guilty to one count of making false documents and one count of using false ...

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

Morningstar launches fee comparison tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
Morningstar 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 ...

BT Panorama completes migration

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
BT Panorama has completed the migration of its BT Wrap clients, bringing its total funds under administration to over $100 billion. The final tranche of nearly 50,000 accounts worth over $15 billion in funds under administration have migrated to BT ...

Netwealth FUA, inflows rise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
Netwealth ended the June quarter with a 12% increase in funds under administration (FUA) and a 102% increase in inflows. The platform recorded $47.1 billion in FUA, up from $41.8 billion in March and a 49.6% increase to the previous corresponding period. ...

FSC launches DDO templates

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and 60 of its members have worked together to launch two products ahead of the design and distribution obligations (DDO) regime. The FSC and members from life insurance, funds management and superannuation have collaborated ...

SuperConcepts appoints chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
AMP's SuperConcepts has made its interim chief executive permanent following the resignation of Lara Bourguignon. Grant Christensen was first appointed as interim chief executive in December after Bourguignon's departure and while SuperConcepts recruited ...

Super funds back space travel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
Several industry superannuation funds are helping fuel the mission of a spacecraft technology start-up that is due to orbit into space in 2022. HESTA, Hostplus and NGS Super are part of a consortium backing Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies. ...

Homebuyer schemes speed up saving time

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
As values soar, Australians are entering the property market up to five years sooner due to government homebuyer schemes, research shows. Commonwealth Bank data shows customers have bought property on an average of 4.78 years faster using the First ...