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Advice groups criticise rushed legislation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... financial advice inaccessible and unaffordable for everyday Australians. The AFA released its submissions to Treasury on ongoing fee arrangements and disclosure of lack of independence, advice fees in super and strengthening breach reporting. "The AFA ...

Super funds snub millions of Aussies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... essential service." "Customer enquiries typically involve reasonably complex discussions regarding contracts, product disclosure statements and other financial or technical scenarios that are often hard to clearly communicate or understand even between ...

The PDS is weak: Rice Warner

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... Rice Warner said. "The investment community used similar remuneration structures - in the 1980s, it was not uncommon to pay a fee of 8% of the purchase price to buy into a property trust." Therefore, one of the consequences of that structure was an industry ...

New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... investment options - Elevate Balanced and Elevate Growth. There is no MySuper option. The balanced option charges an administration fee of 0.81% per annum plus $93.60 per annum. For comparison, fellow start-up super fund Spaceship has an admin fee of ...

ASIC drags NAB to court for fees-for-no-service

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... as a "systematic failure" by the regulator. "When the fees-for-no-service misconduct is coupled with fee disclosure statement inadequacies or failings, customers are potentially placed in a more disadvantageous position," Crennan said. "The customer ...

Industry fund cuts fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... the latest to make an end-of-year adjustment to its fees. First State Super has made an 11 basis point cut to the investment fee in its balanced growth lifecycle MySuper strategy for employer sponsored members, dropping from 0.76% to 0.65% as of December ...

Super fund PDSs to include single cost of product figure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
ASIC has updated its guidance to superannuation funds and issuers of managed investment products on fees and cost disclosure, with a suite of new requirements set to apply from late-2020. The corporate regulator released an updated version of Regulatory ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... funds report total fees of more than 1.5% in their product disclosure statements, while others - such as market leading low-fee products - state their fees are around 0.6%. Dunnin adds that the report shows retail funds have just $700 million in investment ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure statement and renewal notice obligations, focused on whether the fee disclosure documents, provided by 30 randomly selected Australian ...

ASIC, MLC Nominees and NULIS in court

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... alleges. The two firms also failed to disclose that MLC Masterkey Personal Super members had a right to turn off the Plan Service Fee and broke the law by issuing defective disclosure documents, ASIC said. While MLC Nominees and NULIS have already agreed ...