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Ministers told to divest shareholdings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... the extraordinary circumstances of the former Attorney-General having a so-called blind trust to raise money for his legal case. That really exposed the weakness in the system, because how did people know where to donate to this so-called blind trust? ...

ASIC takes Lanterne Fund Services to court

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022
... that Lanterne then implement a risk management and compliance program once the report is received. The date for the first case management hearing is yet to be scheduled by the Court. Lanterne operates a business in which its authorised representatives ...

Australian corporate debt dwindles: Janus Henderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
Janus Henderson analysis found that Australian corporate debt has fallen 21.5% over 12 months because of booming cash flows from local miners. Sharp rebounds in profits among Australian companies along with debt repayments have pushed Australia's corporate ...

That's a wrap for the BT Wrap

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2022
... Vincent said the change keeps pace with customer demands. "We knew we had to continue innovation and provide customers, in our case advisers and their clients, what they want, which is mobile capability, "she said. "People want to track their investments ...

ASIC takes Mercer Financial Advice to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... alleged Mercer failed to provide fee disclosure statements or instead provided inaccurate statements. This was apparently the case for more than 2100 customers. Customers impacted included members of GESB and Alcoa of Australia Retirement Plan. ASIC ...

July 1 super changes: Are you ready?

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... for low-income earners." The only exception to the threshold change is if the employee is under 18 years of age, in which case they will need to have worked for at least 30 hours in the week to be eligible. The new fiscal year will also see the work ...

ASIC urges market to improve outage resilience

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
... participants would consider how to facilitate trading on alternative trading venues during a market outage. "This is especially the case for client orders that have not been submitted to the market with an outage. However, consideration should also be ...

Australia home to high proportion of women billionaires

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
Australia has ranked third in the world for the highest proportion of female billionaires, according to Forbes' 36th annual billionaire list. The top spot was jointly held by Barbados and Portugal with one billionaire each (in both cases, a female). ...

AMP wants life insurance caps raised, fees lowered

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
... signs of these trends changing." AMP further addressed the current compensation caps, saying: "In our view, there is a strong case that the current commission caps should be retained and raised slightly." Adding that a poor level of uptake by consumers ...

Performance test comms criticised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... importance of a failed result in some way are not acceptable." She added that where ASIC feels suitable, particularly in the case of a product's second failure, it will take appropriate action to protect consumers. As at June 15, all but three funds ...