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How to win in today's wealth management industry: EY

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... client relationship management and front-office performance. This requires cultural sensitivity and carries the potential risk of client relationship harm," the report said. "The challenge is to modernise and simplify front-office operations in a smooth ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... such as bonds, commercial properties, or listed equities. Since 2015, all SIV applicants must invest $2 million in higher risk emerging companies and venture capital. Since 2021, investors must allocate at least $2.5 million into emerging and innovative ...

Impact Alpha Partners adds to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... Impact Alpha Partners in its mission by providing a quantitative lens to how impact can be better achieved with return and risk considerations. Impact investing is a quickly evolving discipline that continues to establish how impact could be integrated ...

Franklin Templeton's Brandywine Global launches new fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... "Stocks in the portfolio span a diverse mix of sectors and industries. We're generally invested in larger-cap stocks and our risk metrics are aligned with our view that opportunities are not plentiful in the current environment," Roibu said. "Market ...

Actuaries Institute proposes new performance test measure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... of members. In its Treasury submission, the Institute said the test should include two metrics: the current one and a new risk-adjusted performance measure for super fund products. "This two-metric test would ensure trustees can continue to have confidence ...

Auditors lambast mandatory climate reporting requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... entities to have to go to the significant expense, as well as the investment of time, to prove they have no material climate risk," CA ANZ reporting and assurance leader Amir Ghandar said. "What's the point of subjecting Group 3 firms to such costs when ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of JB Markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... with financial services laws," ASIC said. "The requirements provide important consumer protections in seeking to reduce the risk of a disorderly wind-up, in the event the business fails." JB Markets had held its AFSL since 8 July 2008. The licence authorised ...

Australia's budget position ranks second among G20 nations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
Australia's budget balance as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) was second among G20 nations last year, improving from 14th in 2021, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Australia's budget balance was -0.9% of GDP in 2023, surpassing ...

TCorp promotes three to lead roles

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... Roberts and Yvonne Blunt have been appointed co-heads and are tasked with supporting clients in managing debt and financial risk. Both Roberts and Blunt bring a background in relationship and account management, having held senior positions in marquee ...

Vanguard backs current performance test

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... needs to be simple for super funds to explain and simple for APRA to administer. Introducing additional complexity such as risk-adjusted or absolute measures is unlikely to enhance the benchmarking approach," Dix said. She also noted the importance of ...
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