KARREN VERGARA  |    12:27PM   Several organisations are joining a new campaign to help tackle elder financial abuse.JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |    12:26PM   To ensure the success of financial advice businesses in the post-Royal Commission world, financial advisers must separate planning and product advice fees, as well as benchmark both planning advice fees and portfolio performance.

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |    12:49PM   The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is making a cornerstone investment in a new responsible investment offering from NAB which targets fixed income investors.KANIKA SOOD  |    12:42PM   Growth Farms, the $440 million specialist agricultural asset manager, has launched a new trust-structure fund that will buy rent-generating agricultural properties.

KARREN VERGARA   The Federal Government's proposal to ban default life insurance in superannuation for younger members and those with low balances would supress retirement savings and cost the economy $2.46 billion annually, latest research from AIA Australia shows.KARREN VERGARA   New research strongly backs the economic and health benefits of allowing life insurers to provide intervention and rehabilitation treatment for thousands of Australians each year.

KANIKA SOOD   SMSF cash balances have increased in the past year but are not at an all-time high as is often suggested, according to latest research from BGL Corporate Solutions.KARREN VERGARA   A $1.6 billion industry superannuation fund is calling for new regulations to make it tougher for people with low account balances to set up a self-managed superannuation fund.

BENJAMIN ONG  |    10:38AM   It'll be pitiful if this escalates into an all-out global trade war and reverses the efforts of central bankers towards bringing abnormal monetary policies towards normality.BENJAMIN ONG   While the European Central Bank kept policy unchanged in its June meeting, it laid down a clear roadmap of its streets, highways and by-ways (including unexpected potholes).

KANIKA SOOD  |    12:04PM   ASIC has initiated civil penalty proceedings against Westpac in relation to a Perth financial planner whose poor advice has already seen the bank foot a $12 million bill to remediate clients.ALEX BURKE   The Federal Government opened consultation to industry stakeholders for the first tranche of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle) Bill 2018.

KARREN VERGARA  |    12:31PM   TAL is boosting its group life insurance business with the addition of two senior leaders to the team.HARRISON WORLEY  |    12:21PM   A search is underway for a new chief financial officer at the Australian Securities Exchange after the market operator announced the retirement of its long-term CFO.

ALEX BURKE   An NYSE-listed global insurance brokerage and risk management firm is acquiring an Australian superannuation consulting services company along with its technology-based sister firm as part of a continued play into the Australian wealth market.ALEX BURKE   HESTA is committing a further $40 million to its Social Impact Investment Trust (SIIT), which is managed by Social Ventures Australia (SVA).

HARRISON WORLEY   New South Wales-based fintech innovators cleaned up at the second annual Finnie Awards.JAMIE WILLIAMSON   An ASX-listed fintech partnered with an online financial literacy hub to expand its distribution strategy and launched a new financial wellness program.

HARRISON WORLEY   Latest family business research from KPMG shows that business families with high socio-emotional wealth are more likely to keep control of the business within the family.KANIKA SOOD   Macquarie Group is consolidating its private bank and private wealth businesses to concentrate its growth strategy on high net-worth (HNW) clients, a move it expects to affect advisers.