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Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... of the world, wages growth remains sluggish - 1.9% over the past four quarters to end-June 2017 - and whatever purchasing power consumers have is being eroded by inflation - the annual headline CPI inflation rate was 1.9% in the June 2017 quarter. Besides ...

Accessing financial wellbeing: The power of general advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
The proliferation of financial stress across the Australian population is at its height and yet so many impediments to gaining quality financial advice remain. This is the key driver behind Association of Financial Advisers' president and Noall ...

APRA pushes for greater control over super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... Economics Legislation Committee aiming to address weaknesses in the superannuation regulatory framework that increasing APRA's power and control over trustees is necessary in the wake of collapsed Trio Capital, a scheme which defrauded Australians of ...

Rising star scores major absolute return mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
An asset manager established in 2016 by Credit Suisse veterans has won an absolute return mandate shortly after receiving a superior rating from SQM Research. Dalton Street Capital, led by co-founders Alan Sheen and Nick Selvaratnam, will manage an ...

Powerwrap names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
The chief executive of Bennelong Wealth Partners and chief operating officer of one of the largest single family offices in Australia will be the next chief executive of Powerwrap. Following the resignation of Cormac Heffernan in December 2016, the ...

Voting opens for 2017 Power50

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
Voting is now open for the 2017 Power50 list of Australia's most influential financial advisers. Last month Financial Standard received more than 600 nominations (including multiple nominations) on who should be recognised in the 50 Most Influential ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... Financial Standard after an annual national roadshow where he delivered lectures on "Populism Rising", Sicilia said the power behind human aggregation has shifted in the last 80 or so years. This aggregation shift and the rise of populism effects politics ...

Interim chief executive leaves listed advice firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
The acting chief executive of a listed financial services group will depart at the end of the year. In a statement to the ASX, Spring Financial Group announced that it has accepted the resignation of its chief operating officer and head of advice Frank ...

Exclusive partnership brings $35bn global manager to Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... institutional investors. The strategy invests in solar, wind, biomass, conventional gas generation and waste gas-fuelled power generation and currently oversees about $3.8 billion in infrastructure assets. Capital Dynamics global head of clean energy ...

Advisers flock to non-insto licensees

ALEX BURKE  |  SUNDAY, 1 OCT 2017
... the financial advice market, with significant implications for product distribution if this leads to a weakening in the power of established gatekeepers," the report said. The fastest-growing of these non-insto groups are Merit Wealth, GPS Wealth (recently ...