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OnePath Life sued over utmost good faith duties breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022
... ASIC in Federal Court over failures while handling a mental health claim. In 2016 a customer took out an income protection policy with OnePath Life through an ANZ financial adviser based in Grafton, New South Wales. OnePath Life was owned by ANZ at the ...

Super system shields against macro storm: Fundie

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2022
... destabilising the system. "What then needs to happen is you get more radical policies, and then you get handouts. Fiscal policy has to come in and try to address some of those social imbalances," he commented. "In Australia, we're in a fortunate ...

RBA set to lift the cash rate again

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... strategist Stephen Miller said: "The RBA is underestimating the momentum in price and wage inflation and will have to move the policy rate up much further." Meanwhile, Vantage Markets market analyst Daniel Moss commented: "Governor Phillip Lowe and his ...

Regional commercial real estate to run hot: REIA

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... considerations for the operating environment of the commercial practitioner, including: regional migration, sustainability, monetary policy and construction costs, supply and automation, and technology. Off the back of these findings, REIA found that ...

Delayed reforms put pensioners at risk: OECD

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... sustainability of retirement incomes, thereby building more inclusive pension systems. While current economic uncertainties may lead policy makers and regulators to delay reforms that could advance their pension systems, this course of action will jeopardise ...

Crescent Wealth responds to PDS error criticism

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022
... proposed religious carve outs for faith-based super funds was struck dead, axed by the government despite it being an election policy. Senator Andrew Bragg told Financial Standard that the faith-based carve out was a ridiculous proposal which would've ...

Religious carve outs for faith-based super funds are dead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... Your Super (YFYS) performance test for faith-based funds has been axed by the government, despite it being an election policy. In December 2021, the government said it would adjust the performance test to account for the religious affiliation of a super ...

Millions of retirees will benefit from QAR

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2022
... framework, it said. FSC chief executive Blake Briggs said despite the benefits of compulsory superannuation, if advice policy settings are left unchanged only a third of retirees will get financial advice over the next decade. "A generation of retiring ...

First Sentier names global responsible investment head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2022
... Shareholder Services. White and De Smedt are both based in Sydney. Further, Finian Power has been named the head of ESG policy and regulation. Power was previously the head of investment management in FSI's Dublin office and will play a "leading ...

The challenge of articulating value of ongoing advice

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... require financial advice at all, but that's why ongoing fees are charged. "One bloke pays me a lot of money as his insurance policy against arrogance and stupidity, because he's far smarter than me," Win joked. "He's very self-directed but I'm ...