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Don't miss your chance to win a Google Home

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
More than 240 Financial Standard readers have responded to our annual readership survey. This is your chance to have a say. We're aiming to improve our content and how we deliver industry news based on your valued insights. The survey is open until ...

Industry names team up for cryptocurrency fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
An Australian hedge fund veteran and former ANZ executive have partnered to launch a new active cryptocurrency fund. The EKT Active Fund has been launched by Triple A Partners' Damien Hatfield and former ANZ head of global markets Steve Bellotti. The ...

New Year, new chair at industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
A $4.5 billion industry fund will welcome a new chair and director to its board in the New Year. Described as a building industry stalwart, Wallace Trohear will chair BUSSQ from 1 January 2018, bringing more than 50 years' experience in building and ...

Janus Henderson wins global mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Janus Henderson has won a global fixed interest mandate. Alpha Fund Managers appointed the actively managed Janus Henderson Global Fixed Interest Total Return Fund to its growing list of multi-managed funds. Janus Henderson manages more than $101 billion ...

ASIC takes further action against MyPlanner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Following on from ASIC's recent action against privately-owned MyPlanner, one of the dealer group's advisers has now agreed to refrain from providing financial services. The regulator has accepted an enforceable undertaking from James Fraser as a result ...

Fee-for-service faces ultimate risk test

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
Rollout of the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) on 1 January 2018 will be the strongest test of fee-for-service risk advice, a model seen as imperative to the financial advice industry's future. Industry experts say the critical component to make fee-for-service ...

Former Challenger subsidiary chief joins SMSF fintech

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
The former chief executive of a Challenger subsidiary has taken on a new role at a Sydney-based fintech. Tracy Williams, who departed Accurium in July, will join cloud based SMSF documentation platform NowInfinity in the newly created role of chief ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
Australians all let us rejoice and have ourselves a merry little Christmas! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report shows a sharp jump in employment in November no matter how it's measured. Look at the seasonally adjusted estimates ...

What do you want to see in Financial Standard?

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
Next year, Financial Standard plans to improve its news coverage based on the outcome of an annual readership survey released this morning: Readership Survey. While the survey is open until January 19 next year, here are some of the initial findings ...

Government expert panel hands down proposed education standards for existing advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
Under the proposed standards released today by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, all existing advisers will be required to make a choice between several different education pathways -and some of their current qualifications may fail ...