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Former Westpac planner banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... advice while employed by Westpac Financial Consultants. The regulator found that Bishop implemented an advice strategy that did not tailor advice to clients' personal and financial circumstances, and led to clients being over-insured with an inappropriate ...

Super objective crucial to Commission review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... retirement balances," the Commission's research report said. The Commission has repeated its line that competition in super is not an end in itself, "but an intermediate objective insofar as it drives more efficient outcomes for members." The five system-level ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... after the global financial crisis is back in vogue. While it became something of "it's at the back of everyone's minds, but not talked about" in intervening years, President-elect Trump has brought it back to the fore...and with a vengeance. Wall Street ...

Instos consider Aussie infrastructure plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... government perspective, the infrastructure investment conversation should include industry, super and respective governments. "Not just in how we trade a particular infrastructure asset or project but even in the design of the entire system of what we're ...

Bank inquiry recommends breaking big four oligopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... the idea of a "one-stop shop" for customer dispute resolution, but argued that the provisions for further competition may not be necessary given that Australia's financial services industry is "already competitive. Consumers can choose from 150 APRA-regulated ...

ACCC slams Macquarie and ANZ for cartel conduct

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... former employees. We have made significant improvements to our compliance, training and monitoring systems to ensure this does not happen again." ANZ said it has since enhanced internal policies and procedures with respect to the submission of benchmark ...

Green bonds open impact avenue

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... suggests investors undertake: "Firstly, be happy with the underlying credit: the borrower's ability and willingness to pay, not its green credentials, should be the final arbiter of whether or not the bond is put into a portfolio," she said. "Secondly ...

Key demographic trends open new doors for advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... but they shouldn't be in control of their finances. If they're uninsured it places huge pressure on the government, and it's not included in the NDIS," said Inwood. Inwood believes that the advice market could double in size in the next five years if ...

Kathy Havers from Catalyst wins Future2 award second-year running

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... circumstances of socially excluded and financially disadvantaged Australians. Havers is director the Kindred Spirits Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation supporting Aboriginal people and communities. In this volunteer role, Havers manages projects ...

FPA and AFA merger unlikely: De Gori

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... amalgamation of the industry associations would benefit the industry, creating a 'one voice' position in contentious times - but he's not convinced. "As much as the FPA and the AFA have a voice, we are actually not the only two voices anyway. There are ...