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TAL releases income protection range

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
Life insurer TAL launched three new offerings that aim to address fairness and sustainability of income protection products. Income Protection Enhance, Income Protection Focus, and Income Protection Assist are the three new products available from today. ...

Transition to renewables trumps divestment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
Asset owners are increasingly opting to transition to renewable energy rather than take the blunt approach of divestment, an industry event revealed. Mercer senior sustainable investment specialist Jillian Reid spoke at the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

APRA issues guidance on lifecycle products for performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
APRA has issued guidance on how it will administer the Your Future, Your Super performance test for lifecycle MySuper options that make changes within the option or transition to a new option. The regulator has the power to make determinations on combining ...

BT Panorama down for a week

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... completed. However, the platform remained down for two more days. Verante Financial Planning adviser and SMSF specialist Liam Shorte told Financial Standard the outage left part of his business "paralysed for the best part of the week". "Firstly, the ...

Final YFYS regulations out, government "backflips" on admin fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
In final YFYS regulations released last week, the government now wants super fund to be only tested on last year's administration fees instead of eight years' average in the APRA performance test. The last minute changes to the Your Future ...

Industry fund tops superannuation satisfaction survey

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
An industry fund took the top spot in Roy Morgan's latest superannuation satisfaction report. HESTA was named the winner for the six months ending June 2021, toppling Catholic Super which won the last round to January 2021. "Our focus on putting members ...

ASIC releases ongoing fee obligations guidance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
The corporate regulator is providing more guidance to financial advisers to help them prepare for their upcoming ongoing fee obligations, due to take effect in less than two weeks. ASIC's Information Sheet (INFO 256) outlines the burning questions advisers ...

FSC proposes new advice model

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
Eradicating the Statement of Advice and the safe harbour steps are two recommendations that will help reduce red tape and make financial advice more affordable, according to the Financial Services Council. The financial services' peak body has laid ...

MySuper fees could halve in 10 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
Fees charged by MySuper products could halve over the next decade to a median of 0.5% per year, says Rainmaker Information which analysed the fees of 457 super products over the last six months. The research found MySuper products charged members median ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Wall Street's down. Repeat, Wall Street's down! The CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - jumped by 9.5% in the last trading day of the first month of 2021 to 33.09 points, marking the highest since the renewed COVID-19 outbreak in Europe that subsequently ...