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AMP advisers prepare for battle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... strategy and received ample notice of the changes to BOLR terms. The AMPFPA rejected Wade's comments. A recent FS Advice poll asked whether it was fair to align BOLR valuations with current market conditions. About 68% of respondents said no, while ...

Beware dodgy auditors, sudden CFO moves: Plato

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
Retirement income specialist investment manager Plato Investment Management has hinted at its proprietary system for monitoring the red flags that might indicate a company's share price is about to tank. Plato has created a system for monitoring more ...

Survey backs SG increases

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
Respondents in Financial Standard 's latest spot poll have welcomed the pending increases to the Superannuation Guarantee beyond 9.5%. The majority (79%) of respondents support the legislated incremental increases to the SG starting from 1 July 2021 ...

Australians demand SG increase: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
Australians overwhelmingly support an increase to the superannuation guarantee, according to latest polling. Latest research from the peak body for industry superannuation funds, Industry Super Australia, shows Australians broadly disagree with the ...

Ban unsolicited life insurance sales: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... ASIC's move to ban the unsolicited sales of life insurance. Ninety-four percent of participants, who voted in a spot poll conducted last week, said life insurance and consumer credit insurance (CCI) sold via call centre staff should be outlawed. ...

Deeming rate calculations should be independent: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... to an independent body, while 21% believed the responsibilities should remain with the Government, according to our spot poll. Deeming rules are a central part of the social security income test for pensioners including Veterans' Affairs allowances ...

FASEA exam was fair: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
Less than a third of the financial advisers surveyed in Financial Standard 's spot poll found the inaugural FASEA exam questions difficult, while the majority said it was reasonable. Less than half (44%) of the survey participants said the questions ...

PYSP communication divides opinion

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... effectively the Protecting Your Super reforms were communicated is mixed, according to Financial Standard 's recent spot poll. We sought to find out if trustees communicated the PYSP legislation in a clear, timely and effective manner after finding ...

PYSP queries inundate super funds

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... we're also investigating claims of calls to us being disconnected." Preliminary results from Financial Standard 's spot poll shows that the majority (59%) of readers believe super funds did not do enough to communicate the PYSP reforms to members. ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
The way it's going, the rally in iron ore prices will keep on going and going. Iron ore prices ended the first half of 2019 at US$109.18/metric tonne, representing a 57.8% rally from the US$69.20 it fetched six months earlier. The world's largest ...