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Super fund increases premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
A $117 billion superannuation fund is changing the cost of insurance across the board at the turn of the New Year. Most QSuper members will see income protection cover go up 31%, while death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover will increase ...

NSW budget boosts TCorp loans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
TCorp has unveiled its new funding program that will increase client loans in line with the New South Wales government's record spend on infrastructure. In FY21, TCorp's funding program consists of $32 billion of new client loans. Maturities for the ...

Former adviser pleads guilty to stealing client funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
A former financial adviser has pleaded guilty to misappropriating $2.9 million of client funds by transferring the money to his own accounts for personal use. Ross Hopkins from NSW, appeared at the Downing Centre Local Court, where he pleaded guilty ...

Successor fund transfer finalised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
A $65 billion industry fund is now home to the members of a corporate super plan after a successor fund transfer, which had been delayed, was completed. The IAG & NRMA Superannuation Plan first announced it would merge with Sunsuper in February 2019. ...

Fidelity launches one-stop-shop platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
Fidelity Investments has launched a one-stop-shop wealth management platform that helps investment advisers streamline the advice and portfolio construction process. Fidelity Managed Account Xchange (FMAX), which launched on November 16 in the US, allows ...

Vatican shakes up financial management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
By orders of the Pope, the Vatican has a new financial manager. Pope Francis declared that the administrative management of the Vatican's funds should be transferred from the Secretariat of State to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic ...

Former Financial Circle director charged

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Former Financial Circle director Joshua Fuoco has been charged with managing a corporation whilst disqualified. Melbourne-based Fuoco was charged with four offences following an ASIC investigation. He was charged with three counts of managing a corporation ...

Australians drain $35bn from super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Around $35 billion has been removed from Australians retirement savings as the governments' early release of super (ERS) scheme edges towards its close. Having opened in April this year in response to the immediate effects of the COVID-19 lockdown ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
A slew of regulation recommended by the Hayne Royal Commission to tighten the reigns in the superannuation industry will come into force with the introduction of a new bill. Introduced in Parliament on November 12, the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne ...

Perpetual gets green light for acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Perpetual has been given the green light for its acquisition of a US-based asset manager. Perpetual announced in July it was seeking to acquire a 75% stake in $64 billion Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss (Barrow Hanley). The remaining 25% interest ...