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Challenger Care Annuity sales suspended

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... launching the product in 2012, it provided a "detailed explanation of the product features to the DSS and obtained an assessment, in order to ensure that the correct social security outcome would be applied to Care Annuity investors." In the 2013-14 ...

AMP, Vanguard and ASIC join forces to simplify disclosure

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... preliminary results by mid-2015. The joint initiative will work on developing a short online 'key facts' sheet and a self-assessment tool to guide investor understanding. "More work needs to be done on short disclosure," ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. ...

Super funds must justify not merging: APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... asking whether their "future strategy is an exit strategy." Rowell told Financial Standard that as part of the scale assessment component of the Stronger Super reforms, funds must be able to demonstrate that their structure is of optimal benefit to members. ...

ASIC to watch CBA advisers closely

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... had provided poor advice to some customers in the past. Customers contacted will be given the choice to have their assessment reviewed, and the opportunity to seek independent advice via a qualified adviser (i.e. a lawyer, accountant or licensed financial ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... be a little below trend over the year ahead." "Labour market data have been unusually volatile of late. The Bank's assessment remains that although some forward indicators of employment have been firming this year, the labour market has a degree of spare ...

BNP Paribas' Peter Baker moves to Mercer Sentinel

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Former BNP Paribas Securities Services managing director Peter Baker has been appointed the new head of Mercer Sentinel's Pacific team. The announcement comes just days after Baker informed BNP Paribas that he would be leaving his post as managing director ...

Custodians make managers more accountable: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... performance for Asia Pacific, the access custodians have to a super fund's investments has meant that they can carry out an assessment of whether managers stick to their stated strategy. "The classic question everyone is going to ask a super fund trustee ...

BT launches 'ground-breaking' advice register

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... a third of risk advice was non-compliant, Spiers said BT's advice was all in order. "All our controls and internal assessment of our advisers doesn't give us any concern over disclosure of fees or commissions. Our advice disclosure documents require ...

YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... Lawler said: "The new Australia Ratings and Mercer ratings add to Atchison's 'Highly Recommended' investment-grade assessment of the Smarter Money Active Cash Fund, which we are finding is increasingly popular amongst wholesale and institutional clients. ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... assess progress--both realized and expected--toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation ...