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Frydenberg takes action on banning grandfathered commissions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... Government first released exposure draft legislation to ban grandfathered conflicted remuneration for financial advisers last February. The new regulations - in the form of a Treasury Laws amendment - propose to change the Corporations Regulations to ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... question is when? The lesson from history is that soon... very, very soon. The Fed announced its last interest rate hike in February 1989, months after the first yield curve inversion in February 1988. That proved too late to escape the 1990 recession. ...

Natixis bets on thematic investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... with our clients' interest," she said. Natixis had about $7.5 billion in assets under management in Australia, as at February end.

NEOS continues recruitment drive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... application process through his knowledge of underwriting analytics. Tania Du Plessis was appointed as senior underwriter in February. She was most recently technical underwriting manager at Hannover Life Re and also worked at TAL as New South Wales ...

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... the cap reduces to 60%, with a 20% trailing commission thereafter. In releasing the Royal Commission final report in February, Hayne proposed to shrink caps of 20-60% further when it reviews the impact of the reforms in 2021. ClearView argued the unintended ...

New head of retail at Pinnacle

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... head of retail from Morningstar, as the incumbent moves his focus to corporate strategy. Ramsin Jajoo joined Pinnacle in February. He will manage a team of 16 and report to its founding managing director Ian Macoun. Pinnacle has about $10 billion in ...

VanEck launches hedged version of $520m ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... from an international investment while a depreciation can enhance returns." The ETF industry stood at $44.4 billion at February end, growing 21% in twelve months. Exchange traded products attracted $397 million in net inflows in February and almost a ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
... of Statistics' (ABS) good news on the country's unemployment rate - it dropped to an eight-year low of 4.9% in February from 5% in the previous month and 5.5% in the same month last year. This affirms and, at the same time, provides credence ...

AFA takes red pen to Hayne report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... the Royal Commission, the industry fund movement is now pushing for a broader definition of intra-fund advice." In late February Anderson came out swinging in a public response to the final report at the Sydney leg of the AFA's Connect tour, lashing ...

Chief economist update: BOJ decision announced and ignored

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... chastise (shame?) Trump after "The billionaire tycoon... came in second in the Republican Iowa caucus" on the 1st of February 2016. For sure and for certain, the world will remember Trump now and his on again-off again trade negotiations with economy ...