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FPA and AFA aim to administer adviser standards

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... Dante De Gori said the association believes "financial planners and their clients can operate under a professional scheme rather than a more expensive commercial alternative which may not bring the depth of understanding of the various business models ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term ...

Super funds react to market sell off

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... and investment returns, we think the effect on long-term investment returns will more likely mean a return to the norm rather than the extremely buoyant levels experienced from much of the past decade," the fund said. Think carefully before switching ...

RBA calls for more innovation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... transaction per second in a secure, message-format way. "As a market operator, the key objective here is to promote innovation rather than to predict what particular innovations we would like to see or the customers would like to use," he said. "If you ...

Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... FSC chief executive Sally Loane said. The PJC has instead focused on "cultural issues within the life insurance industry" rather than considering consumers who need help, Loane added. As a solution, the committee recommended that ASIC undertake a thorough ...

Robo-advice register launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... seen as a "disruptor" to the traditional advice model, Hoven said a hybrid model of interdependency is more realistic. "Rather than being seen as a threat, these tools can complement the existing human adviser. They offer significant potential to improve ...

What 1% in fees could do to investments

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... have ended up with just $896,508 which is almost 26% less. InvestSMART chief executive Ron Hodge said in most cases, fees rather than returns make the biggest difference to investors' quality of life in later years. "People don't realise the magic of ...

Advisers: Keep your clients off A Current Affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... Parker's comments came after he warned delegates of an impending recession, which he believes could take hold in 2020, rather than next year. "It is a late cycle world, there will be a recession at some point in the next few years," he said. "2020 seems ...

Quant manager seeks to unscramble cryptocurrency dictionary

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... said. "We've monitored this by looking at implied volatilities which are based on a forward view of risk in the market rather than a backward historical view of volatilities based on prices. We deal with it by monitoring the relative levels of the ...

ASIC bans Spectrum Wealth adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... group of high-risk advisers. The resulting high-risk list is not in itself an assessment of poor quality advice, ASIC said, rather helps target surveillance activity. The LILD Project was established in August 2016 to help ASIC focus its surveillance ...