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MLC cuts PDS down on flagship products

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... already releasing a short-form PDS for its MLC MasterKey Business Super in November last year. The Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) for the MLC MasterKey Super & Pension Fundamentals and MLC MasterKey Super & Pension products will be available from ...

Advance embarks on multi-blend approach

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... International and Wellington, will co-manage the fund. In line with new regulatory requirements, the Product Disclosure Statements (PDS) for the all Advance funds are limited to eight pages of standardise disclosure documentation with the minimum wholesale ...

JB Global submits to independent review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Investment Services, said most product issuers and fund managers had questions from ASIC regarding product disclosure statements (PDS) in the past year. He said all concerns raised related to just one PDS from 2010 out of more than 20 launched with the ...

Paraplanners master SoAs with COIN

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... which begin in Sydney in March, offer guidance on understanding products, portfolio construction and product disclosure statements.

BT Wrap releases plain English investor guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
BT Wrap joins the campaign to make product disclosure statements much easier to understand through its new Investor Guide. Launched after six months of intensive customer research, the BT Wrap Investor Guide is part of BT Wrap's focus on innovation ...

Infocus planner banned by ASIC

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... provide clients with documents required under the Corporations Act, such as statements of advice and product disclosure statements. Among other indiscretions, ASIC found that Radovan overexposed client portfolios to higher risk products in breach of ...

Structured prod issuers must disclose risks: ASIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... follows a program the regulator launched in January last year. The review researched more than 60 product disclosure statements (PDS) to see how effectively the documents explained the inherent risks in the products. ASIC's review is especially pertinent ...

CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... risks in trading the products. The research looked at CFD issuer pricing models, issuer advertising, product disclosure statements and complaints by retail investors. CFDs allow investors to bet on future changes in the market price of a share or commodity ...

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... scheme operator. To be clear, the regulator said the disclosure benchmarks won't be mandatory but product disclosure statements (PDSs) and ongoing disclosure must address the benchmarks on an 'if not, why not' basis. Marcus Elgin, the executive chairman ...

BlackRock SMA tops $500m

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... Customised Portfolio Service has reached $500 million in FUA and launched 84 investment models across 34 product disclosure statements in under five years in operation. Scott Phillips, BlackRock's director and head of retail at BlackRock said the separately ...