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IOOF to provide fee relief to adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
IOOF has announced a new initiative that will see its network of financial advisers offer free financial guidance to local communities until the end of September. IOOF said it is providing fee relief to its advisers to volunteer 60 hours of their time ...

Complaints abound during COVID-19: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has received over 3180 COVID-19 related financial complaints since the pandemic was declared in March, with more than 600 directed at superannuation funds. Speaking to members at on online forum ...

Receivers appointed to Mayfair 101 entity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Receivers have been appointed to Mayfair 101's IPO Wealth, with Mayfair slamming the decision by the trustee and claiming this won't harm its Dunk Island development. Vasco Trustees Limited, the trustee of IPO Wealth, advised that on 22 May ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... wouldn't be impacted if people lost their jobs or were stood down or working less hours as a result of COVID-19. The initiative, announced on Tuesday, will see insurers assess TPD claims resulting from an illness or injury occurring since the pandemic ...

COVID-19 recovery plans must heed climate science

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... Water, Energetics, Edge Environment and Community Services.net Pty Ltd (CSnet). They are a part of Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which in Australia is run by GCNA and WWF-Australia and has more than 30 listed companies actively involved in ...

ESG investing to remain strong through pandemic

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... stimulating economies in the wake of the pandemic, Wilson-Otto also said there was a "unique opportunity to turbo charge initiative to combat climate change". "This isn't the first time the world has been rocked by a crisis, however the salience ...

Super must come together over cybercrime

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... more could be done to protect Australians. Early on, super funds were concerned of the dangers of fraud in the ERS initiative, raising concerns about increased levels of fraudulent activity as it was rolled out.

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... ASIC missive caused the peak body for industry superannuation to reconsider how it calculated the impact of the ERS initiative on retirement balances of super fund members, a response to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...

IFM cuts carbon footprint from Aussie infra assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
IFM Investors' local infrastructure assets, which include Ausgrid, major airports, ports and toll roads, cut their carbon footprint by 7.9% in the year ending June 2019. The industry-superannuation-owned fund manager started reporting its infrastructure ...

CountPlus acquires firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
CountPlus member firm CountPlus One has made a new acquisition, acquiring the advice services of Centenary Financial. CountPlus One and Centenary are Count Financial member firms, now clients and key employees of Centenary will transfer to CountPlus ...