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FASEA rethinks CPD, provides exam update

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
FASEA and its exam provider ACER have offered an update on what financial advisers can expect from the FASEA exam amidst the COVID-19 pandemic - taking a wait and see approach. Meanwhile, financial advisers are also calling for FASEA to reconsider its ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...

Former Morgan Stanley chief to join Westpac board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... Association. Seale joins Westpac's board after stints as a director at Bank of Queensland, Ramsay Health Care, and Penguin Random House Australia, where she was a non-executive director before chairing the organisation. She currently serves as a director ...

Sydney's latest high net-worth individual

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... who is a healthcare professional - said she randomly decided to purchase an entry on Wednesday, and marked her entry with random numbers. Now, she's more than $107 million richer, after her prize was boosted by the number of entries in the draw. "I just ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The ups and downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices ...

Random questions forge deep connections

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... deeper connections with clients. At a dedicated session, first time delegates were asked to meet new people by finding "random common ground." Facilitating the session, Next Evolution Performance chief executive Vanessa Bennett said the goal of the activity ...

CBA, ANZ told to clean up superannuation distribution

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... "While we are confident our staff members have been following a robust compliance process, which has been confirmed through random customer surveys, we acknowledge ASIC's concerns that customers may have regarded this as personal advice, and have ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... index funds' share of fund assets has consistently grown, market standard deviation has risen and fallen in a seemingly random pattern and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant except for the tech bubble and the ...

Cultural bias heavily discounts female artwork

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
Art buyers and investors pay female artists up to 50% less for their work compared to men on average, latest academic research has found. A study of more than a million art auction sales across 40 years found a 47.6% price gap between male and female ...

Active manager diversity breeds performance: WTW

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
Investors who rely on a single active equity manager are more likely to underperform, according to Willis Towers Watson research. The analysis revealed that if an investor were to pick one equity manager randomly, chances of adding value are low - even ...