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APRA floats insurance in super change

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
APRA has floated proposed revisions to prudential standards covering insurance in super, including requiring independent verification of insurance arrangements to ensure they are in the best interests of members. The prudential regulator has released ...

Consultation opens for retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
The financial services industry and wider community has just over two months to make submissions to the government's retirement income review. The retirement income review's consultation period officially opened late on Friday afternoon, providing industry ...

Media Super winds up income investment option

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
The $6.2 billion superannuation fund Media Super has issued a notice to members notifying them that its Income Plus investment option will close effective 5 February 2019. The fund said the ongoing low bond yield environment has put performance of its ...

Chief economist update: How low will Lowe go?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
RBA rate cut expectations strengthened after the release of worse-than-expected Australian labour market report. Duh! If financial markets were waiting for the jobs report to raise the odds of another Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate reduction ...

FASEA attempting to re-write law: AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is using its Code of Ethics to re-write the law rather than providing genuine guidance to financial advisers, the industry association believes. According to the Association of Financial Advisers ...

Chief economist update: The A$ will answer the question of how much more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2019
When the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met and decided to keep the official cash rate unchanged at 0.75% on November 5, Governor Philip Lowe issued this optimistic statement: "After a soft patch in the second half of last year, a gentle turning point ...

Magellan hires Macquarie insto head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
The global equities powerhouse has hired Macquarie's head of Australian institutional business for its 25-strong sales and distribution team. Darren Ottawa joined Magellan last month as an institutional business director. He will be responsible ...

September FASEA exam results in

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released the results from the financial adviser exam held in September, which 1697 financial advisers sat. The exam was held in eight metropolitan and nine regional centres between 19 September ...

Perpetual appoints head of risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
Perpetual has confirmed the appointment of a head of risk, promoting from within to fill the newly created role. The investment house has promoted Allan Lo Proto to the new role of head of risk, a spokesperson has confirmed. Proto first joined Perpetual ...

Chi-X forced to be client of competition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
Disrupter stock exchange Chi-X has revealed it is forced to be a client of its competition - the ASX. The ASX currently has a monopoly when it comes to clearances and settlements in Australia. Chi-X chief operating and technology officer Mike Aikins ...