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Financial planning

Sequoia ramps up APL scrutiny with new committee

Danielle Press, a former ASIC commissioner, is to chair a new AFSL committee set up by Sequoia which seeks to improve governance practices and review its approved product...

Funds management

'Nightmare fuel': Clime IM reviews APL selection amid product failures

Clime Investment Management is overhauling the selection process for its APLs, with managing director Michael Baragwanath describing the threat of a product failure affec...

Features

Is there still a place for LICs?

Last year’s volatility has prompted several listed investment vehicles to move away from the structure but firms operating them say there are still benefits, writes Laura...

Financial planning

Committee pursues claims of AMP charging $22,000 APL fee

The deputy chair of a key Parliamentary committee has pointed to claims that AMP Limited is charging product manufacturers as much as $22,000 to be included on an approve...

Financial planning

Advisers significantly impacted by PC

Financial advisers have emerged as unwitting casualties of the Productivity Commission’s final report on superannuation competitiveness and efficiency....

Financial planning

Are APLs really necessary?

With the Royal Commission questioning the role of Approved Product Lists a larger question has arisen about whether self-licensed advisers are achieving better outcomes t...

Funds management

Antipodes declares maiden dividend

Antipodes Global Investment Company (APL) has declared its maiden dividend of five cents per share, 50 per cent franked....

Life/Risk

FSC APL standard ‘wasted opportunity’

ClearView has launched an attack on the FSC over its life insurance APL draft standard, arguing it does not tackle conflicts of interests and proves the industry cannot s...

Features

Ethical investment – what price?

An increasing number of Australians are looking to pursue ethical investments outside of superannuation but, as Mike Taylor reports, there is a concern that some planners...