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Steve Helmich joins Affinia

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
TAL has made two key appointments to its Affinia risk advice team. Steve Helmich has been made chair of Affinia, having joined from AMP, where he was, most recently, executive director of financial planning. Commenting on his appointment, Helmich said ...

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
The government is determined to raise the professional standards of financial advisers, and it will do it by passing new legislation, it said in its response to the Financial System Inquiry. The government will develop legislative amendments that will ...

ASIC funding model needs "meat on the bones"

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... model would work, how it will benefit the industry and analysis of possible alternatives. These "make it impossible to determine if this is the best option," chief executive Steven Burrell said. "We need more meat on the bones of the proposal. We need ...

Monopolies offer best infrastructure returns: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... job for 130 years. That's why another characteristic Robertson looks for is a long track record and lots of data to determine long-term power usage, traffic flows and the like. To that end, the fund does not invest in green or brown-field projects. The ...

Don't flood managed accounts with excess investment options: advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... Dunnin argued that the best way to understand the sector was to "talk to people" using these new styles of platforms and determine what advisers and their clients are actually looking for in their managed account structures. "The main concern of advisers ...

GFC drove advisers to managed accounts

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... "proactive rather than reactive" in times of market volatility. "We had a house view before the GFC that we needed to determine at what stage you had to write up a full statement of advice. We knew the market was heating up but it's difficult to act ...

Super and TPD definitions in the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Debate around definitions for total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance claims through superannuation funds has again come under the spotlight. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event in Sydney this morning ...

S&P warns banks on cyber risk

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... third-party vendors; and even using an outside "white hat" group to deliberately attack the bank's security system to determine its strength. AMP Capital addressed similar issues in its latest Corporate Governance Report, wherein it noted that "cyber ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... judgments about appropriate monetary policy will change." Read: incoming data and developments in financial markets would determine whether or not they take the first step towards normalising monetary policy... this time in October. This week brings ...