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Super fund for women adds fee

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
A superannuation fund that markets itself to women has created a new administration fee. FairVine Super, a sub-plan of Aracon Super, has added a $104 per annum administration fee (equating to $2 a week) for members in its balanced and growth options. ...

AustralianSuper PYS fee under scrutiny again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
ASIC has been questioned over whether it should have intervened when AustralianSuper introduced a new fee named after the Protecting Your Super legislation. In January AustralianSuper increased its admin fee, saying that from April 1 members would start ...

Platform prototypes compliance capability

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... generated by advice practices (for example in SOAs or ROAs), he said, and tests risk-related indicators such as fee disclosure statements and investment strategies. This includes something as granular as whether a client's money is invested according ...

Fees drop at Raiz

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... ETF issuer and not Raiz, so were an indirect cost affecting the performance of investor's portfolios. A new product disclosure statement became available to investors earlier this week, which outlines underlying issuer fees of 0.239% p.a. for members ...

Adviser guilty of misuse of client money

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... providing advice that was not in the best interest of his clients and failing to provide statements of advice and fee disclosure statements. Melbourne-based Bimaljeet Sekhon was banned for three years for failing to comply with financial services laws ...

ASIC bans RC case study adviser

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... not always in the best interests of clients, and did not always come with a Statement of Advice or appropriate fee disclosure statements in a timely manner. Harris, a former Millennium3 and Dover authorised representative, was the subject of a Royal ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... of the preparation and delivery of financial advice," Anderson said. "In other cases, the cost and complexity in Fee Disclosure Statements and opt-in processes is significantly adding to the ongoing cost of maintaining an ongoing fee arrangement with ...

ASIC provides relief around early super access advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... is also subject to strict conditions. Conditions include providing clients with a Record of Advice and capping the advice fee at $300. The adviser must also establish that the client is entitled to access their super early and the client must have approached ...

Could relief on advice compliance save consumers?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... significant one with long term impacts and it would be beneficial if individuals could speak to an accountant or adviser for a small fee, still be protected by legal safeguards, and get quality guidance with appropriate documentation," he said.

Lack of independence must be made clear: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... 2020. Under the recommendations, ASIC said written "express written consent" will be needed to charge fees for an ongoing fee arrangement from a clients' account on a yearly basis. In addition, the regulator suggests each year a record must be kept of ...