HARRISON WORLEY  |    12:42PM   Westpac's cash earnings in the first half of the year will be hit by $260 million in remediation payments.KANIKA SOOD  |    10:11AM   Australian employment figures and economic outlook could take a hit as major banks move to derisk their businesses by hiving off wealth and financial advice businesses.

KANIKA SOOD  |    12:33PM   VanEck has launched a hedged version of a $520 million that invests in MSCI Ex Australia using quality as a factor.KANIKA SOOD  |    12:31PM   Perpetual has opened an offer to raise $150-$400 million for an actively-managed portfolio of credit and fixed income assets.

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR   The life insurance industry is pushing ahead with the rollout of new rules on genetic testing despite a delay.HARRISON WORLEY   TAL went back-to-back, winning the Association of Financial Advisers' Life Company of the Year award for a second year running in Sydney recently.

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |    11:56AM   A new report by the Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) and the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has found limited recourse borrowing arrangements in SMSFs are not a risk to the financial system.ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |    10:59AM   The provider of ASIC corporate compliance solutions and SMSF administration announced new integrations.

BENJAMIN ONG  |    10:50AM   Other central banks around the world can still save the day with their new policy changes.BENJAMIN ONG   The lesson from 2011 is that the RBA's non-proactive response forced it to lower interest rates by more than it should, if only it paid attention to the slowing employment growth trend.

HARRISON WORLEY  |    12:40PM   The Federal Government is committing an extra half a billion dollars to Australia's financial services regulators.ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |    11:54AM   A full-service stockbroking and wealth management firm with over 60,000 active clients has had additional licence conditions lifted.

KARREN VERGARA  |    12:42PM   Superannuation fund Rest has appointed two group executives to join newly created units.KARREN VERGARA  |    12:12PM   Equity Trustees hired a former APRA manager to the newly created role of head of risk and superannuation strategy.

KARREN VERGARA   Rest is seeing an uptake to its recently launched low-cost indexed options thanks to the Barefoot Investor.ELIZABETH MCARTHUR   Macquarie Bank revealed in a note to brokers it has made significant changes to its product offerings.

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |    12:29PM   A new report on the subscription economy has revealed Australian subscription companies grew revenues 10 times the rate of the ASX sales-per-share index.ELIZABETH MCARTHUR   A global cryptocurrency exchange announced it is testing out a new way to buy bitcoin with cash, choosing Adelaide for the experiment.

KANIKA SOOD   A new tribe of art collectors is emerging across the globe as younger high-net-worth individuals loosen their purse strings to buy more readily than the old guard, says a new UBS report.KANIKA SOOD   A prominent high-net-worth financial adviser is aiming to have 7-10% of his clients' portfolios in alternatives as the markets mature but he's eschewing hedge funds and picking private assets instead.