Investment  CHRISTINE COVINGTON | THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has justifiably absorbed management and board attention, but environmental and other activist groups have not shifted their focus during the lockdown. Read more  BJORN DE SMEDT | FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020 In the last few years, a growing number of investor stewardship codes have called for investors to become more active owners. Stewardship codes typically outline how investors can encourage companies to incorporate and maintain good corporate governance ... Read more  MARK LEWIS | THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020 A few months is a long time in oil markets. In late February 2020, the attention of oil-industry analysts and investors was fixed firmly on the supply side of the market, with all eyes on the growing power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Russia over ... Read more  RAEWYN WILLIAMS , JOSHUA MCKENZIE | FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020 All sectors of the superannuation industry agree that successful equity investing entails some short-term pain to enjoy long-term gain. Superannuation funds and investment managers who embrace an active management philosophy can feel his acutely when ... Read more  SARAH SHAW | FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020 A popular discussion point for investors in recent months has been what shape the post-pandemic recovery will take. Read more Administration & Management  MARK STANDEN | FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020 Following consultation, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has released updated internal dispute resolution guidance for financial firms (Regulatory guide 271 Internal Dispute Resolution (RG 271)) and registered a legislative ... Read more  ALISON ROSS , LEEANN MURPHY | THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020 Couples engaged in property settlement negotiations or court proceedings prior to the COVID-19 crisis currently face a difficult choice: should the negotiations be suspended until the crisis ends or should negotiations and property settlement matters ... Read more  SIMON HADDY | THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020 On 1 July 2020, First State Super and VicSuper merged to become Australia's second largest superannuation fund, managing $125 billion in savings on behalf of more than 1.1 million members across the education, health and public service industrie ... Read more  MICHAEL MATHIESON | FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020 ASIC's consultation paper on advice fee consents (CP 329 Implementing the Royal Commission recommendations: Advice fee consents and independence disclosure) was issued on 10 March 2020, around the time when many organisations were introducing bans on ... Read more  ALLY SELBY | THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020 The government's early release of superannuation scheme, introduced earlier this year and recently extended until 31 December 2020, has assisted millions of Australians to weather the economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis. Read more Ethics & Governance  CRISPIAN LYNCH , VINCENT GIANG , JACOB SAULWICK | WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020 The Federal Court's decision in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) fee-for-no-service proceedings against certain licensees within the NAB Group highlights the principles to which a court will have regard in ... Read more  ANDREW HOWARD , ADAM SIMMS | FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020 The conditions around the COVID-19 pandemic-economic uncertainty and lack of internal controls in a new digital workplace-have created the perfect ecosystem for financial crime. Leaders who fail to take the right precautions and preventions now could ... Read more  RICHARD BATTEN , PRAYAS PRADHAN | FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020 The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) made a product intervention order on 22 October 2020 that imposes conditions on the issue and distribution of contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail clients. This paper summarises the key ... Read more Retirement  TIM MILLER | THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020 The ability to bring-forward future year entitlements to make non-concessional contributions to superannuation has been in place for many years now. Up until 30 June 2020 this could be done by anyone who was under age 65 on 1 July and met the total ... Read more  MEG HEFFRON | THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020 Almost all pension members will occasionally draw more than the minimum pension amount in a given year. If so, it is critical to think carefully about how those extra payments should be treated and documented before taking the payment. Pension members ... Read more |
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Payday super protects most vulnerable: SMC
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Changing retirement landscape needs regulatory framework: Actuaries Institute
|The government has been encouraged to create a regulatory framework that empowers superannuation trustees to offer members targeted help, guidance, and advice (HGA) on issues outlined in the Retirement Income Review (RIC).
SMSF Association, CA ANZ rally against super tax changes
The SMSF Association and Chartered Accounts ANZ (CA ANZ) have urgently called for the rejection of a newly proposed bill that would double tax on many Australians superannuation earnings.
Cover Story
A fresh start
JONATHAN ARMITAGE
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
COLONIAL FIRST STATE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
COLONIAL FIRST STATE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
Colonial First State chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage has a clear-eyed focus on positioning the fund manager as the first choice for retirement and investment savings. Anchoring this ambition is a commitment to delivering stellar investment outcomes, a tenet that's served as his career North Star. Andrew McKean writes.
Expert Feed
Lessons from "Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street"
Netflix's series "Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street" was confronting summer viewing - the harrowing stories of investors losing everything.
What Australians did with their super when COVID struck
Commonwealth Bank data shows the Australians who withdrew super spent more, but paid down their debt.
Equities: Why it's too early for investors to relax
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2023's investor reality check
The latest ASX Australian Investor Study has just been released and the survey of 5,500 Australian adults is a terrific investment market reality check.
