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Rethink property investment: Poll

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... banks tighten lending practices. Just 14% of respondents to Financial Standard's weekly poll disagreed; saying now was not the time to reconsider property investments, while the remaining 4% were unsure of how to tackle its challenging conditions. ...

Productivity Commission proposes more changes to financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... Commission said 'general advice' should be renamed to something else so that when the term 'advice' is used, it is not associated with 'personal advice' or advice that takes into consideration personal circumstances. 'General ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... high of 5.78 in December 2014. The survey's key findings: Low income growth, "the majority of Australian households are not getting a pay rise." Not really an earth-shattering revelation but it confirms the stagnant growth in wages in the Australian ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... paid the attention due or whether some of those failed for potentially trivial matters rather than substantive reasons for not being pursued fully," Steffanoni says. Financial advice, which was covered extensively in the second round, is set to make ...

Digital advice, fintech firms merge

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... responsible for technology, platform and client delivery. "The growth trajectory of both businesses will accelerate. We are not looking to make any dramatic changes to either business other than to drive synergy," Morrow told Financial Standard. "We ...

ASIC identifies potential risks in ETP market

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... liquid, bid-offer spreads are narrow and secondary market prices are generally close to the NAV of ETP units. However, this did not necessarily apply to all ETP products, at all times. "In particular, we observed that spreads do temporarily widen in ...

Aurora takes acquisition bid to Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... down its final decision on June 28, stating it was "very troubled" Molopo failed to meet "serious disclosure" obligations by not taking greater care in communicating to shareholders it was the subject of a potential takeover. It added the acquiring control ...

XPLAN picks up Lumen integration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... software XPLAN. IRESS has made it easier for licensees to identify actual and potential scenarios where advice standards are not being complied with by integrating data analytics solution Lumen with its XPLAN software suite. IRESS said XPLAN's integration ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... with recent evidence from the Bank's Agents, the REC survey and rising wage settlements, including in the public sector." Not totally a bad thing for it'll allow the BOE to go gently on subsequent rate hikes. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics ...

Royal Commission work impeded: Hayne

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... several of the claims, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said: "Many of the documents in respect of which privilege is claimed are not documents that record or refer to communications made for the dominant purpose of IOOF or Questor obtaining legal advice." ...