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Responsible investing rises on advice agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... stock pickers to asset allocators, as well as prioritising to capital preservation. The latter is now cited as the second-highest priority when advisers select investments, behind diversification and ahead of capital growth. Advisers are also increasingly ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... ownership structures will become even more important with increased personal tax rates. "If all beneficiaries are in the highest tax bracket, an investment company may be the most tax effective structure to invest long term wealth. The capital gains ...

Aussie investors calm about next 12 months

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... chose international stocks, 32% chose real estate and 27% chose cash. The average Aussie investment portfolio had the highest allocation to cash (27%), followed by equities (25%), real estate property/funds (18%), fixed income (16%), alternatives (9%) ...

Industry fund boosts executive team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... we help our members achieve financial dignity now, and in retirement. It is imperative that we keep performing at the highest level and enhance our member and employer offering so we can continue to improve and ultimately grow," he said. Donnelly said ...

New Zealand reviews life insurance commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
New Zealand life insurers are paying the highest commissions to financial advisers in the world and the nation's Reserve Bank is concerned about the conduct risk it is creating. According to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's latest Financial Stability ...

Lenders must recognise millennial wealth strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... using gearing in the next 12 months, and a further 230,000 could be encouraged to do so. The use of gearing to invest is highest in the late accumulation stage, with 19% of online investors aged 50-64 using gearing. This is compared to 5% of millennial ...

Productivity Commission pushes for superannuation scale benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... consolidating. By way of example, significant potential savings of $1.8 billion can be realised from a merger between the 50 highest-cost and 10 lowest-cost funds.

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... said. He then said that he has already asked his team to undertake a review to ensure they are holding themselves to the highest standard of account, "using as a benchmark the standards we expect of others." Asked who or what body would be charged with ...

FPA honours top advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... the Year Award went to Kearsten James of Sterling Private Wealth. The Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award, which recognises the highest performing student in the final unit of the CFP Certification Program, went to John Dacker from Shadforth Financial Group. ...

Aussie companies drop dividends

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... million from its dividends to shareholders in the midst of a restructuring. Bank dividends also flat lined as the country's highest-dividend payers kept dividend rates on hold, except for CBA which made an increase of 0.5%. "Australian banks have very ...