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Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... analysis of the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA), a provider of grants or low-interest loans to the poor countries, shows that borrowers are overindebted and need almost half (45%) of their debt cancelled. Head of Oxfam International's ...

Super advice fee deductions compound red tape: JAWG

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... advisers to respond to numerous and different processes. This ultimately adds to the cost of advice and will likely result in a poor consumer experience. "Under the proposed legislation, superannuation trustees that allow fee deductions will need to ...

Fund managers prepare for harsher penalties

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
... meeting their regulatory requirements, with 66% saying they were good at it and only 1% describing their ability to do so as poor. Aron Brown, head of regulatory and compliance at Ocorian, said it was surprising to see the number of firms that believed ...

Threats outside the Australian financial system build: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... falls are likely, at least in some market segments, given the lag with which commercial real estate prices tend to adjust to poor conditions; price discovery has been hampered by transaction volumes that remain well below historical averages due to the ...

Why this fundie sees the economy making a hard landing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
'Goldilocks' soft-landing view, deteriorating consumer health and a poor growth outlook this Australian reporting season hints at a hard landing. "After digesting the latest information from reporting season results and company meetings our analysis ...

Australia's wealthiest women not getting the advice they need

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... without prior experience or existing relationships with professionals. The research found these women, most of them time-poor, placed a premium on informed decision-making and investment performance. " The number of HNW women in Australia has been steadily ...

UK advisers told to review retirement advice processes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... retirement, saying many do not use cashflow modelling or do not use it appropriately, potentially leading consumers to make poor decisions. It also found some firms do not assess customers' capacity for loss, which could result in them taking on more ...

ASIC bans Queensland financial adviser

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... had its licence cancelled by ASIC in 2020 after two-year battle that began when ASIC surveillance found it was providing poor financial advice and wasn't adequately supervising representatives. Rose's banning has been recorded on ASIC's banned ...

Inaugural CSLR levy slugs advisers $18.5m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... particular, financial advice. However, if advisers are driven out of business by rising costs, through being made to pay for the poor behaviour of those who left this sector years ago, there won't be a financial advice sector left to have confidence ...

Sexism in the City: UK financial sector slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... poorest female representation, with just 12% of portfolio managers being women. Hedge funds and private equity also have poor representation of women. Other recommendations made by the Committee include urging all employers to equalise their offer of ...
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