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Senate Committee endorses Superannuation Objective Bill

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... stability" and contribute to public trust and confidence. AustralianSuper asserted the Bill would promote intergenerational fairness, ensuring young people don't experience higher tax obligations to fund the Age Pension. The Australian Council of ...

Canna Campbell slapped with $114k legal bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... Advice Association Australia (FAAA), Ms Campbell is bound by a Code of Conduct to act with integrity, objectivity, and fairness. As a result of this litigation, a complaint was raised with ASIC and the FAAA in January and no update has been provided," ...

Court finds Canna Campbell infringed trademark

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
... financial planner and member of FAAA, Campbell is bound by a Code of Conduct to act with integrity, objectivity, and fairness, Korolak said. "As a result of this litigation, a complaint has been raised and there is an open investigation by the FAAA into ...

Zurich cleared by Federal Court in life insurance dispute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
... non-disclosure. "We believe this was an important case to bring given our view that it was appropriate for procedural fairness to be provided before avoiding a customer's insurance policy. ASIC enforcement action plays an essential role in testing legislation ...

Mercer fined $12m over advice failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023
... financial services. "... market efficiency, upon which consumer confidence rests, relies on reliability, good faith, fairness and honesty of conduct. These obligations are of fundamental importance, and they underpin the functioning of the Australian ...

Objective of super bill lands in parliament

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023
... nearly two million members, over a million of whom are women and young adults, stand to gain from the reforms promoting fairness in the super system. Doyle noted that many of the fund's members, often in part-time or casual roles with lower incomes ...

Fidelity finds key barriers in Australian estate planning

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... key themes like navigating uncertainty, legal and administrative issues, financial pressures, family dynamics, ensuring fairness for the family, and fulfilling personal wishes. Further, respondents making estate plans often cited complications arising ...

Ring-fencing super for aged care adds complexity, cost: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
In a submission to the Aged Care Taskforce, which is currently evaluating the fairness and sustainability of aged care funding in Australia, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has voiced strong opposition to ring-fencing superannuation ...

Rest closes investment options, shifts allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2023
... and plans to increase the visibility of unpaid superannuation, there has been some encouraging progress towards greater fairness and equity recently," Doyle said. "We need to build on this momentum and implement further reforms, such as superannuation ...

Adviser levy tripled, labelled "deeply unfair"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023
... participants, and yet the government is keeping all the proceeds - then this breaches really fundamental principles of fairness and equity." Abood added that it is "deeply unfair to proceed to charge advisers using a model that is already acknowledged ...
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