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Pressure on advice practices means time for rethink: ClearView

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
Financial advisers must rethink value propositions and condense client books to achieve sustainable growth as traditional advice offerings continue to feel the squeeze. A new paper from Matrix Planning Solutions, distributed by parent company ClearView ...

MLC Life creates four adviser engagement roles

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
MLC Life Insurance, the insurer established after NAB sold its life insurance arm to Nippon Life, has created four new business engagement manager roles. The managers will join MLC Life Insurance's retail business from May 1 and will focus on assisting ...

Fortnum names two key hires

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
A former national manager at BT Financial Group is now heading financial advice at Fortnum Private Wealth. Joining Fortnum as head of advice is Kerry Thomas. She was previously national manager, practice advice, at BTFG and has more than 15 years' financial ...

Bankers told to spread positive message

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
Twelve months in to its public commitment to place more focus on protecting consumer interests, the banking industry still needs to persuade the community that change is being made. On Friday independent governance expert Ian McPhee delivered his fourth ...

Value set for comeback: Nikko AM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
Value investing is set for a comeback after two years of underperformance - but only for managers willing to put in the hard yards. Nikko Asset Management portfolio manager and senior analyst Jason Kim explained in a recent investor update that the ...

ASIC signs fintech agreement with Indonesia

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
ASIC and Indonesia's Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) have entered a co-operation agreement to promote innovation in financial services in the regulators' respective markets. The agreement, signed on Friday in Melbourne, establishes a framework for co-operation ...

Labor renews calls for banking Royal Commission

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
Senate Economics References Committee chairman Chris Ketter has justified Labor's calls for a Royal Commission into the banking and financial services sector, citing a flood of angry consumer complaints. In a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Consumer ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
"The French complain of everything, and always," Napoleon Bonaparte once said. The French made known their disenchantment with the establishment political parties - both the Republican and Socialist parties failed to garner enough support to make it ...

Global manager acquires Australian tech firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
An $81 billion international investment manager took the majority stake in a large Australian provider of specialist medical software. IFM Investors, via its private equity business, acquired Genie Solutions, a software business established in 1995 ...

Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
KPMG warns any increase in Australia's historically low interest rates would cause serious economic problems and affect households across the entire financial spectrum, from rich to poor. The industry consultant said one of its biggest concerns is that ...