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Wealth firm gears up to change administrator

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
Acclaim Wealth is preparing to conduct a data migration for its AMG Super Personal Pension Division next week, involving approximately 6000 members with funds under management of $1.6 billion. The migration will move these members from an old FNZ technology ...

ASIC wins greenwashing case against Vanguard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... regulator for greenwashing, paying $40,000 to comply with three infringement notices related to product disclosure statements (PDS) for the Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Funds. ASIC noted that the Vanguard International Shares ...

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... 2023, MSC, as trustee and responsible entity of the Bloom Fund, made statements in the fund's product disclosure statement (PDS) that said the fund would seek to avoid the investment of the fund's assets in a range of excluded activities, including in ...

ASIC waves red flag at advisers, trustees over Choice products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... relevant PDSs for five or more years. Several of the options reviewed failed to meet their return or benchmark objectives in the PDS by a significant amount and over a significant period, ASIC said. Overall, the annualised returns of the options that ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders against Keystone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... worded and presented in a clear, concise, and effective manner." ASIC said it is concerned the product disclosure statements (PDS) contain misleading statements regarding Keystone's legal role in unregistered schemes the fund invests in; inadequate disclosures ...

ASIC, APRA slam premium hikes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
Life insurers are underhandedly hiking premiums in a way that is misleading and fails to explain why they are rising, according to APRA and ASIC, warning that they will take regulatory action if practices do not improve. The regulators have reprimanded ...

Hostplus ups fees on socially responsible option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... "materially higher", blaming increased performance fees. The industry fund recently updated its Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) to reflect the fees and costs incurred last financial year for members in Hostplus Super, Personal Super, and the Executive ...

Morningstar cops greenwashing fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... Honeywell International, General Dynamics, Leidos Holdings, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon Technologies despite stating in its PDS that such businesses would be excluded. The fund invested in Honeywell International from November 2 to 18. It was invested ...

Sterling Income Trust executives charged

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
... themselves homeless. Before its downfall, in August 2017 ASIC issued an interim stop order on product disclosure statements (PDS) issued by Theta Asset Management (Theta) offering investments in the SIT. In 2021, ASIC banned Theta managing director Robert ...

Super fund, insurer admin issues draw AFCA complaints

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
... suggested that the actions had not adequately addressed the issue," AFCA said. Another insurer omits medical definitions in its PDS, and instead directs customers to a website to read them, meaning they must undertake their own detailed research to find ...
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