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TPB welcomes independent review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) welcomed the release of a discussion paper in the review of the TPB and the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. The new discussion paper outlines the views of Keith James, who is heading up the independent review into the ...

Iress announces changes to Xplan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
Iress has made several improvements to its popular Xplan offering which should improve functionality for thousands of advisers. The changes to the advice software platform will be released on Friday. Iress says these changes followed a year of user ...

Financial services boom rolls on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... of the Industry report shows financial services - comprising mainly the banking and funds management sectors - is helping power Australia's economy ahead of the mining industry. Between 1974 and 2018, financial services contributed 32.5 percentage points ...

Final nail in the coffin for grandfathered commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... the grandfathering of conflicted remuneration by 1 January 2021. "We are also going further, by including in the Bill a power to make regulations to establish a scheme that will provide that those people paying conflicted remuneration rebate clients ...

IFM Investors reports $114m in FY19 profits

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
IFM Investors wants to invest in its business and seek out more opportunities in Australia in the year ahead, as it posts $22 billion in net flows and $114 million in pre-tax net profit for FY19. The funds management powerhouse owned by industry superannuation ...

Private wealth firm grows footprint

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
Two former Westpac executive financial planners have joined the leadership team of a national private wealth firm, seeing it expand interstate. Marc Smith and Patrick Duke have joined Integral Private Wealth, establishing the Sydney-based firm's first ...

Open Banking gets another shot in parliament

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... reintroduced to Parliament and read today. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the legislation is designed to give consumers more power and allow them to switch service providers more easily. The Consumer Data Right reforms would first be applied to the banking ...

AMP Capital revamps ethical super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... to fossil fuels to reduce the revenue companies can make from fossil fuels including mining thermal coal and brown coal power generation from 20% to 10%. The fund already had an exclusion in place for "companies that make a material amount of money from ...

Aussie income fund added to platforms

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
A global infrastructure manager has announced its Infrastructure Income Fund is now available on a wide suite of retail investment platforms. The RARE Infrastructure fund is now on eight retail investment platforms, with BT Wrap being the latest addition. ...

ASIC moves to ban direct life cold calling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
ASIC moved to ban the unsolicited telephone sales of life and consumer credit insurance. Consultation is open for ASIC's proposal to ban the sale of direct life and consumer credit insurance by unsolicited phone calls, in a move the corporate regulator ...