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ASIC finds shortcomings in wholesale market practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
ASIC has released two reports on better and poorer practices in wholesale financial markets, encouraging participants in these markets to benchmark themselves against industry standards. Report 741 Conduct risk in wholesale fixed income markets (REP ...

Affordable housing in Budget spotlight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
Access to affordable housing is at the core of the Federal Budget, including a new national Housing Accord struck between the government, institutional investors, and industry to help tackle the growing issue. Under the Housing Accord, one million new ...

RBA downplays exchange rate inflationary impacts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... sector back into other traded sectors," Kent said. However, by itself, this depreciation wasn't sufficient to restore the level of competitiveness of Australian labour to its pre-boom levels and absorb all the economy's spare capacity. Rather, that was ...

Industry surveyed for Asia Region Funds Passport review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... Region Funds Passport (ARFP) as part of its review. Stakeholders are being asked to complete a survey, aimed at gauging the level of industry interest and/or preparedness to use the ARFP and the factors informing the industry's decisions about the passport. ...

Quantifying the value of a financial adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
Russell Investments Value of an Adviser report says many investors are being pressured into sub-optimal investment decisions but having a financial adviser could add more than 4% to total portfolio value. So, even though advice fees have jumped 16% ...

Westlawn Financial Services cops stop orders

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... consider its target market for the fund, which, according to the TMD, includes investors with a tolerance for a moderate level of risk, needing liquidity or needing to make withdrawals during the investment term, seeking to have their capital invested ...

Colonial First State partners with Bravura, Tech Mahindra

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
Colonial First State (CFS) is making significant changes to the FirstChoice platform, entering a strategic partnership with Bravura Solutions and Indian IT company Tech Mahindra. The partnership marks the next stage of its ongoing $430 million transformation ...

Members stick with dud super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... considering the application of the stapling process, including specific feedback as to how it's operating at the workplace level and in conjunction with group insurance. "We understood that there were going to be some consequences to the way the former ...

Millionaires worry about retirement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... low-rate environment, which is bad for bonds. Even as rates go up, it will still take time for them to reach a comfortable level for generating a consistent income for retirees. In the meantime, 58% of HNWI recognise that low rates will make it difficult ...

QAR could see 12% increase in insured Aussies

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... fee to pay for it. "The recommendations proposed will steadily increase the total number of in-force policies, with the level of comprehensive advised sales still falling," NMG said. "But not as far as today's scenario, which will by more than offset ...