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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
US Dallas Fed manufacturing survey Consistent with the significant improvement in recent surveys in the US regions of Philadelphia, Richmond, Kansas City and New York, the Dallas Fed general business activity index surged to a reading of 10.2 in November ...

Long way to go on professional standards: FPA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Dante De Gori has warned the journey toward introducing a minimum professional standard is far from over, despite the legislation being tabled last week. Speaking to Financial Standard, De ...

FPA philanthropic arm donates $147k

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... $10,000 The Carevan Foundation, (Albury, NSW) Kids Cooking and Caring Neil Evans CFP $10,000 Waringarri Media Aboriginal Corporation (Kununurra, WA) East Kimberley Kids Media Participation Julie Matheson CFP $10,000

WTW senior consultant moves to Vision Super

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... global wholesale financial services at NAB. She has also held senior roles at the Bank of New Zealand and Southpac Corporation, and is an external expert on strategic asset allocation for the International Monetary Fund. Willis Towers Watson director ...

Professional Standards legislation hits parliament

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer has introduced legislation to mandate professional standards for financial advisers. The Corporations Amendment (Professional Standards of Financial Advisers) Bill 2016 includes compulsory education ...

New director for MyState

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... non-executive director for Xenith IP Group, Australian Energy Market Operator and the Tasmanian Water and Sewerage Corporation. MyState chairman Miles Hampton said the banking and wealth management group is pleased with Krieger's appointment. "Sibylle ...

CommSec pays $200,000 penalty

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
CommSec has paid a $200,000 infringement notice penalty after failing to apply a holder record lock to the accounts of a deceased client and entering into unauthorised market transactions following the client's death. The Markets Disciplinary Panel ...

ASIC permanently bans dishonest adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
ASIC has permanently banned a New South Wales financial adviser from providing financial services. Ashley Howard was banned after an investigation found he had engaged in dishonest conduct, maintained that trading he was conduction was authorised, provided ...

Court blocks IOOF class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
A proposed class action against IOOF has been rejected by the Victorian Supreme Court. Law firm Maurice Blackburn has agreed to orders prohibiting it from proceeding with the proposed law suit, commenced in December 2015 on behalf of tens of thousands ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
Industry Super Funds have called on state and federal governments to be more active in developing partnerships to create infrastructure investment pipelines that will in turn boost economic growth and diversify member investments. New research from ...