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Banking and super groups back parliamentary recommendations

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... said. He said the banking industry supports a co-regulatory model and an independent standards setting body to set and monitor the higher education and professional standards for financial advisers. As part of the ABA's submission it says the major banks ...

SMA usage climbs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
One in five (20%) financial advisers are now using separately managed accounts for investors, according to research by JBWere and Investment Trends. This is the highest level of usage recorded, indicating both the growing client preference for the transparency ...

BetaShares launches ASX-listed hedge fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Exchange traded funds (ETF) provider BetaShares listed a hedge fund to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear Hedge Fund will invest its assets into cash and sell equity index futures contracts (ASX ...

ANZ sets up $30m compensation program for advice clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
ANZ will reimburse $30 million to clients of its financial planning business who did not get the annual reviews promised as part of the bank's advice and investment service. About 8,500 Prime Access clients will be reimbursed, ANZ confirmed in a statement. ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... this time, our debt ratio is rising to a level they're trying to get down to. As the April 2015 issue of the IMF's Fiscal Monitor headlines, "Now Is the Time! Use Fiscal Policy to Support Sustainable Growth". The IMF may be preaching fiscal austerity ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Hamish Douglass, Roger Montgomery, Kerr Neilson, David Paradice, Tim Samway, John Sevior, Anton Tagliaferro, Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... RBA recently addressed a Senate Economics References Committee inquiry about digital currency and said it continues to monitor developments in the area. RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards, and payments policy department senior manager David Emery ...

Political donations pay off

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... 2014 financial year significantly outperformed key market indices, research from research and advisory firm Political Monitor shows. While giving to both parties ensured the best outcome, companies that gave only to the Liberal or National Parties experienced ...

ASIC launches planner register

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... also gives employers greater ability to assess new financial advisers and will improve ASIC's ability to identify and monitor financial advisers," said ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell. "ASIC will now focus its efforts on the second stage of the register ...

QIC executive departs for Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... across the team," the spokesperson said. "The smooth transition underscores quality succession planning that we constantly monitor and pro-actively manage."