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Deductible super contributions front of mind: BTFG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... Panorama investment platform, allowing advisers to request client approval either through SMS or BT Panorama's online message centre. According to BT, digital consent reduces administration and helps advisers take advantage of time sensitive investment ...

Impact investing reports sharp growth

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... representing a $4.6 billion increase since the 2014-15 financial year. Produced in partnership with Swinburne University's Centre for Social Impact, RIAA's benchmarking report reveals funds raised through green bonds have significantly contributed ...

IOOF executive takes new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
The former head of managed fund research at IOOF has joined another ASX-listed financial services firm. Former IOOF executive Miriam Herold has been named as Centrepoint Alliance's new head of research. Herold first joined IOOF in 2015 as a senior research ...

Commercial property manager hires sales executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... joined ANZ in 2004 as global head of leasing and structured asset finance. Before that, he was an executive director at Centre RE, joint managing director of Omni Technology Rentals and director leasing and structured tax-based funding at Allco Finance ...

Super funds countdown to Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... Corporations Act in numerous instances. In Kathy Marika's case study, Orr summarised that Select breached the Act when call centre employees provided personal advice without proper authorisation; sold a product without expressly obtaining her consent ...

QSuper cuts administration fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... on personalised services for our member," he said. The fund's admin fees include member services such as: a contact centre, seminars, website, and communications. It is done in-house, Pennisi said. It first cut its admin fee in 2015 (from 22 bps ...

Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
The financial services Royal Commission exposed more boiler room sales tactics of call centre staff selling life insurance which drove poor behaviour and a sales-driven culture, and effectively breached anti-hawking provisions. Select AFSL managing ...

Centrepoint bumps up advice litigation provision

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
Centrepoint Alliance flagged an increase in advice litigated claims is on the horizon for its subsidiary Professional Investment Services (PIS), quantifying the amount to be $2 million more than anticipated. Following its reassessment of PIS' legacy ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... compared to overall growth and the three other quarters." CNBC quoted Tom Stark - manager of the Real-Time Data Research Centre at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - observing that "Q1 GDP growth tends to be the lowest of the four quarters" and ...

NAB names wealth advocate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... Code of Conduct Committee for the Australian Council for International Development; deputy chair of the Asylum Seekers Centre, and a board member of City West Housing and Energy Consumers Australia. NAB chief customer officer of consumer banking and ...