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How personality tests add value in advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... their own strengths and weaknesses. "There's a lot of a quality research around things like you need ask people why five times to get to the real answer," she said. "Young advisers especially can sometimes be so excited to help someone that they ...

Many benefits to going your own way: CMC Markets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... book," Shade said. By that, Shade explained CMC Markets wants to be able to see that advisers are behaving ethically at all times, maintaining a customer focus and not taking part in any price gouging or churning. "We want to be the trusted adviser to ...

Chief economist update: Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... the housing industry and measures of the activity involved in buying and selling homes." Duh! I've ranted many, many times on this space about the large multiplier effect of the housing sector on the general economy and even quoted the HIA Economics ...

Chief economist update: Lower iron ore a boon to the Aussie budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. In the case of iron ore prices, it's a tale of two markets this year - a bull market in the first half; a bear market in the second half. Iron ore ...

NAB faces half a billion in fines

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
National Australia Bank has admitted to breaching credit legislation 255 times over its axed introducer program for mortgages. NAB has filed documents in the Federal Court admitting to 255 of the 295 breaches of the Consumer Credit Protection Act alleged ...

Cbus enters corporate super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... sign the fund is diversifying its membership base. "That being said, it is entering a competitive marketplace where often times funds provide insurance discounts or special deals to large employers to get new deals," he said. "The new product has lower ...

Industry fund changes insurer

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... unit basis. Members paid a premium of $1.28 per week, to get a default cover of up to $2550 for a month for two years in times of illness or injury. They could buy additional units if they wanted greater cover. Under the new arrangement with Chubb, members ...

FASEA chief unaware of dwindling adviser numbers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... the course of the exchange between Glenfield and Stoker, Australian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson interrupted several times in defence of FASEA. "They're trying to change a culture; that's the whole point... in an industry that's been malfunctioning ...

Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... Apple chief executive Tim Cook) by Fortune magazine, and described by Paul Krugman (in his opinion piece for The New York Times ) as arguably "the greatest central banker of modern times" because "among other things, he very clearly saved the euro from ...

Another winter of Australian discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... grain-producing regions facing their third straight year of "severely drought- affected production". "This means that the tough times are getting tougher and the tail of enduring impacts of the drought is getting longer... And these impacts don't ...