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Admin and compliance taking up 56% of advice practice costs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... Australian wealth management landscape. Participants revealed 56.5% of the average advice practice costs are spent on product administration, reporting and compliance. The findings identified three core challenges including a lack of integration between ...

ASX files defence against ASIC proceedings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
... approach to how it is implementing the upgrade to its equity clearing and settlement systems, including the selection of a product-based solution and staging the implementation over two releases. "ASX has also established the CHESS Replacement Partnership ...

Advice take up falls amid decade-low retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
While demand for financial advice is apparently the highest it's ever been, the number of people actually seeking it has dropped. That's according to new research from Brighter Super and Investment Trends that shows retirement confidence among Australians ...

Second bidder enters SelfWealth takeover talks

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
... client money reporting rules, lodge financial statements on time, abide by ASIC derivative transaction rules, and lodge product disclosure statement in-use notices.

UK to follow Australia's lead in creating megafunds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
In what's considered the most significant reforms to the UK retirement sector in decades, the defined contribution schemes of 86 administering authorities will be consolidated and their assets pooled to create megafunds. The UK government plans to introduce ...

Cbus board still considering CFMEU directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... to reach out to people in the construction industry around the issues that are relevant in terms of our differentiated product, particularly so given stapling and also the dangerous occupation aspects of insurance, to make those members aware," Fok said. ...

Wages grow 3.5% for the year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
The Wage Price Index rose 0.8% in the September quarter and 3.5% for the year, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said this was the first time annual wage growth ...

Insignia Financial eyes 'most efficient' title by 2030

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
Insignia Financial is hoping artificial intelligence (AI) and a direct-to-consumer superannuation push will see it become Australia's "leading and most efficient" wealth manager and save $200 million per annum by 2030. Revealing its five-year strategy ...

HNWIs demand alternatives, platforms lack access

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
As high-net-worth (HNW) investors increasingly demand alternative assets, platforms are failing to facilitate access to these opportunities, according to Praemium. Nearly one third of HNW investors want to diversify into alternatives but their platforms ...

Bell Financial Group bids $51m for SelfWealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
... available within BFG." Separately, Bell Asset Management (BAM) appointed Lucinda Hill as executive general manager of product and operations in a newly created role. Hill joins BAM in January 2025. She spent more than 10 years at Paradice Investment ...