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Managed Accounts Forum survey open

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... presentations. Among the financial advisers speaking at the forum are: Rob McGregor - principal adviser, McGregor Wealth Management Tim Townsend - partner and private wealth adviser, Townsend Cobain Private Wealth Partners Gareth Jakeman - founder and ...

Complex operations leaving life customers confused

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
Operational complexities are holding life companies back from improving and modernising the life insurance industry, and leaving customers very confused as to exactly what they are insured for, a public hearing found. TAL group chief executive and managing ...

Westpac halts $14bn asset manager sale

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
Westpac has ended discussions regarding the sale of a $14 billion asset management subsidiary after the prospective bidder decided not to proceed. Charter Hall had originally entered talks with Westpac regarding the potential acquisition of Hastings ...

New ethical advice certification will drive consumer trust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON AND DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
A new certification for the provision of value-based, ethical financial advice is now available to individual advisers delivering advice free from conflict or incentive. Launched by Certainty Advice Group, the certification is applicable to advisers ...

The negatives in the positive jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
If you've been hopin' and wishin' and prayin' that someday soon you'll be getting a fat pay rise, hope and wish and pray some more. While the headline seasonally adjusted numbers of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report were ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'Wage Price Index' report for the June quarter confirmed what we, Australians all, already know...wages growth remains sluggish. Even market consensus got it on point. Growth in total wages stood still at a ...

Retail managed accounts option gains traction

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
A new platform is targeting investors directly with promises to save time and huge amounts of fees through the benefits of a managed discretionary account service. Touted as Australia's first direct-to-client automated alternative managed accounts offering ...

Passive versus active is crippling: QIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
Active and passive fixed income investing are complementary, not at logger-heads, and serve different purposes within portfolios and in different market conditions, according to QIC. In a new paper the investment management giant explores the debate ...

BNY Mellon subsidiary makes local and global hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
Insight Investment named its new global head of distribution and appointed a new product specialist to its Sydney office. Formerly global head of distribution at Barings Asset Management, Angus Woolhouse will take on the same role at Insight, bringing ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...