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More female clients requires more female advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... again calling on listed Australian companies to consider the gender diversity of their boards. "While there has been progress over recent years towards increasing the gender diversity of Australia's listed company boards, the rate of change is disappointingly ...

Reinvigorated OneVue inches up platform rankings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
OneVue is gaining traction among financial advisers, with its functionality trumping that of Colonial First State's FirstWrap, according to the latest platforms analysis from Investment Trends. Of the 19 full-function platforms studied, OneVue re-entered ...

Advice clients demand philanthropic conversations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Philanthropy is becoming part of the conversation between financial advisers and clients as it's an area increasingly accessible to middle Australians, an estate planning expert says. Australian Unity Trustees national manager of estate panning Anna ...

Industry fund takes aim at asset manager diversity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... reported to HESTA's investment committee and board. These results will then be reported to asset managers in aggregate and progress towards representation targets will be tracked. "The aim is to collaborate with managers to develop case studies which ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... outlook. While the Eurozone's growth momentum is clearly strengthening, the euro's appreciation could limit/reverse the slow progress the ECB has achieved on inflation. Perhaps, the most important of the minutes released last week was that of the Fed's. ...

Class recruits data manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
The former head of client experience at WealthO2 has joined Class to grow the delivery of data feeds to financial advisers. Joining the SMSF administrator as feeds operations manager is Tom Sargent. Sargent joins after 12 months with WealthO2. Sargent ...

Chief economist update: The dog ate my growth target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
Doggone! The latest batch of money and credit data out of China would have anyone think that President Xi and Premier Li's promise to reduce financial risks by cracking down on debt, excessive leverage, risky loans (through shadow banking) has gone ...

Suncorp reviews options for life insurance business

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
Suncorp Group is considering all the possible options, including a potential sale of its life insurance business despite a 56% surge in underlying after-tax profit to $39 million reported in its latest financial results. The life insurance arm's strong ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... consolidated a number of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. Groeneveld at the time said the partnership has enabled SuperConcepts to meet SMSF members' technological demand, with tools ...

Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... overall short-term figures are positive these are due to unusually high market returns. "Looking back at 20 years of progress makes for encouraging reading. In particular, the improving position of pension assets as a proportion of GDP and the evolution ...