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Financial services executives in the money

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... 10th biggest platform by market share and attracted 22.1% of net fund flows to platforms in the previous 12 months - 11 times its market share. It has been less than 12 months since Netwealth debuted on the ASX, with shares first offered at a price of ...

Investor interest in long-short strategies surging: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... sell" stocks. Short selling allows investors to profit when stocks or markets decline - hence the appeal to investors in times of market uncertainty. The cohort as a total returned 11.7% p.a. in the five years to March. This was 4.1% higher than S&P/ASX ...

APRA tells banks to prepare for financial storm clouds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... system should be nothing if not financially sound," Byres said. "History tells us, however, it's not wise to assume good times will last forever. It might be sunny today, but financial storm clouds and strong winds will arrive at some point." Byres outlined ...

Managed Accounts Forum survey open

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
Rainmaker research says the managed accounts market is growing three-times the rate of the regular platform market. In the lead up to the Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts, Financial Standard is running a survey to further this industry insight. ...

Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... insurance. An ASIC investigation of phone-based practices found Let's Insure, a subsidiary of Select AFSL, had three times more inappropriate life insurance sales tactics than the other firms under review. In one sample, ASIC deemed 19 out of 55 ...

Royal Commission cracks down on life insurance phone sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... drove the wrong behaviour. "We have evolved our commission structure. It was designed to make agents productive but, at all times, the intended outcome was compliant sales," he said. A Roy Morgan survey released in January found the phone was the most ...

Same insurance cover, different price: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... occupations, premiums also differed. A 45-year-old member can pay as little as 87 cents and up to $26.40 per week - almost 30 times more. For a 45-year-old member working in a low-risk occupation, Fay said the median premium amount for standard insurance ...

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... and the strong momentum in the US economy, would strengthen speculations that the Fed would raise interest rates by four times this year (it has already lifted twice). Then again, the Income and Outlays report also showed that the Fed got it wrong on ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... "Our current thinking is that there would not necessarily be all that much demand for an additional form of money in normal times, though this would presumably depend partly on design decisions such as the interest rate (if any) that would be paid on ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... inflation is low, why not move to something more normal. It's not austerity - we shouldn't have cut rates the last two times. The economy wasn't weak enough to warrant it. It's just getting rates back to something more normal." Did you ...