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Consultation opens for retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... system's issues. "Any change must be for the better and give members more control and choice over how and when they retire - rather than seek to dismantle or wind back our universal system," Dean said. "The review must strengthen our super system to ...

AIST finds issues with FASEA code

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... fundamental, particularly given research that has shown that Australians express a preference for piece-by-piece advice rather than holistic or comprehensive advice." She pointed to the Corporations Act section 961B as allowing for scaled advice, Scheerlinck ...

Dover, McMaster found guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... the judge said the fact there was never any complaints made by Dover clients was not proof the policy was not misleading, rather simply that no clients had bothered to make a complaint. McMaster conceded that if Dover was found to have contravened the ...

Complexity equals risk: IOOF chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... managed," Mota said. Mota said IOOF would no longer seek to manage conflicts when it came to related party transactions, but rather to eliminate them entirely through a series of structural changes. "We had a more complex structure than an organisation ...

FSC, ISA face off over APRA heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... adjustment is appropriate. "We are also concerned that the analysis of sustainability relates to the whole of a super fund rather than the specific products being examined, presenting a potentially misleading view." The FSC chief executive urged APRA ...

No pat on the back for high performers: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... not convinced that's necessarily a good way of thinking about outcomes. Our role is very much to lift the bottom up rather than have a view necessarily on those that are already performing okay." Commenting on the heat map, Rainmaker head of superannuation ...

Defined contribution: A global perspective

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... billion in KiwiSaver at the moment, Klipin said New Zealand would probably consider itself a nation of property investors, rather than a nation of savers in the way Australia - with its $2.9 trillion super system - does. "So there's that kind of ...

New career move for ex-SuperConcepts head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... market." He added that SuperAA is the fastest growing SMSF business in Australia. "It has achieved this via organic growth rather than via acquisition," Doulgeridis said. "The secret to its success is very simple; provide exceptional client service at ...

FASEA attempting to re-write law: AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is using its Code of Ethics to re-write the law rather than providing genuine guidance to financial advisers, the industry association believes. According to the Association of Financial Advisers ...

Ethics code creates confusion around ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... clarification to Financial Standard : "In short, Standard Six does not require the adviser to ask about ethical investments. "Rather, where a client indicates they only wish to invest in ethical or green investments, Standard Six requires the adviser ...