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October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... while the Asian segment fell by 0.3 points to 99.6. State Street Global Exchange research and advisory services business associate Kenneth Froot said October's sell-off in the US erased all 2018 year-to-date equity market gains This was amid concerns ...

One-stop complaints shop opens

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Australia's newly-established financial services dispute resolution system expects to play an important role in the wake of the Royal Commission into the sector's misconduct. Australian Financial Complaints Authority chair Helen Coonan said the one-stop-shop ...

NAB signals more bad advice remediation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Among its FY18 results, National Australia Bank flagged that bad advice and fees for no service remediation will continue to dampen its future financial performance. Numerous contingent liabilities and potentially paying out more compensation plagued ...

Industry fund, IRESS begin automated advice journey

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
A $3.5 billion industry superannuation fund is the first to implement IRESS' new digital advice solution. The rollout of WA Super's digital advice tool, SuperClick Advice, includes white-labelling IRESS' automated personal advice engine. SuperClick ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
The Productivity Commission has taken a deeper dive into insurance inside superannuation and cast doubt into the sector's ability to help the Government alleviate social security payments. Releasing a supplementary paper to its May draft report ...

Chatbots will move from consumer finance to corporate: BAML

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... forth." Boussuge said some banks are already using AI to automate manual tasks that might have otherwise been done by an associate-level banker. "With intelligent automation and artificial intelligence, machines can open up that [customer] email, can ...

Former Australian cricket captain in crypto fail

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
The cryptocurrency venture once supported by a former Australian cricket captain has folded. Brisbane-based start-up Global Tech was in the midst of an Initial Coin Offering which it says has now ceased in accordance with ASIC requirements. The cryptocurrency ...

Advice dealer group takes out governance award

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
One of IOOF's newly-acquired dealer groups was recognised in the Governance, Risk and Compliance Institute's annual awards. Elders Financial Planning took home the Team of the Year Award at a function hosted in Sydney. Elders Financial Planning general ...

Super funds excel in reporting obligation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
Nearly all large superannuation funds are fulfilling reporting obligations to a "high standard," the ATO's latest diagnostic reports show. In its fourth year running, the 2017 Risk Differentiation Framework (RDF) report found APRA-regulated funds successfully ...

JP Morgan Asset Management grows distribution team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... relationships with the firm's institutional clients as the business grows. Prior to her time at BlackRock, Basoor was an associate director of institutional business at Fidelity International after earlier spending time as an account manager and relationship ...