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Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... scheme to compensate clients who receive bad advice. A rise in professional indemnity premiums is only compounding the problem. Senators Nick Xenophon and Sam Dastyari proposed a statutory financial advice victim insurance scheme at the Senate Economics ...

CFS reveals retirement income strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... are seen as the silver bullet. They put the annuity and the account based pension into a single product." However, "the problem is that there's been a couple of providers that launched into Australia and withdrawn. And the ones still out there haven't ...

Institutions and independents tackling risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... new advisers into the industry which are vitally needed if we are to seriously tackle Australia's chronic underinsurance problem."

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... might mean that the opportunities there are already overpriced: "India is a country we have to have a lot of money in, problem is, a lot of people agree with us," Neilson said, while acknowledging the country's major changes in "banking, utilities and ...

Retirees 'much worse' off: RBA

JASON CADDEN FOR AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... world, the price of buying a given annual flow of future income has gone up a lot,"A Stevens told a banking summit. The problem was the most severe in Europe but was also potentially one for Australia to deal with, he said. Stevens said yields on investments ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... measures they should be looked at. Labor is just trying to make-up for more Government spending that they locked in. Their problem is they spend too much and they don't want to reduce the tax burden on Australians." Other industry associations have responded ...

Grattan issues new report on super fees

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... products are retail products, a point reinforced by separate research released last year by Rainmaker. However, she said the problem is that many of these low fee products are locked out of default arrangements due to the "anti-competitive" nature of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following sharp falls on Wall Street on fresh worries about a Greek debt default as US President Barack Obama called on Greece to enact reforms. At 0815 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... yield is now the greatest source of prudential risk in the financial system." According to the BlackRock co-founder the problem is most acute for investors nearing the end of the accumulation phase. "Today's pre-retirees in particular face a stark set ...

Investors misunderstand smart beta: AXA IM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... markets is to arbitrage an investor that is always going to follow the same rules," Hurt said. "Re-worked indices solve a problem for investors today but will be vulnerable to the next crisis, whatever it may be." He argues that true-to-label smart beta ...