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Inconsistency, communication top adviser bugbears

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... Sandercock, will explore some of the critical best interest duties financial advisers shouldn't overlook in practice. Canberra-based Weissel told Financial Standard that there are three common things she's seen catch advisers out: inconsistent processes ...

Aussie regtech readies firms for MiFID II

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... in 2015 and the partnership will enable it to leverage LSE's technical expertise and global scale. APIR has offices in Canberra and Sydney. Industry estimates by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation shows 250,000 entities still require LEIs ...

Property investing key to outlasting super

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... deduction benefits such as depreciation and interest, that investment property ownership brings," Smith said. He named Canberra as an ideal location to start an investment portfolio, where home values increased by 4.9% in the three months to July and ...

Industry Super pushes for affordable housing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... report author Stephen Anthony said affordability has reached crisis point, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne, with Canberra not too far behind. "In the past five years, incomes in Sydney have risen 15% on average, but house prices have risen 87%. ...

Whitehelm boosts water investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... has about £2.3 billion ($4 billion) in assets under management, with more than 50 staff working in London, Sydney and Canberra. The firm is 70% owned by staff and 30% by Challenger via its Fidante Partners multi-boutique funds management platform.

Macquarie team joins Shaw and Partners

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Shaw and Partners is bringing over a team of seven from Macquarie Private Wealth to manage a new Canberra office. Stephen Johnson will lead the new Canberra team along with fellow Macquarie veterans Rod Sutherland, Tom Kenyon, Penny Ponder, Neil Robertson ...

Location, location, location: the key to retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... benefit most from a change of scenery. The Milliman Retirement Expectations and Spending Profiles report demonstrates that Canberra residents have the highest annual spend at $38,923, compared to Tasmanian metro residents who are spending just $28,816. ...

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... the March quarter - in line with market expectations -- following a 4.1% increase in the December 2016 quarter. Only Canberra residential property prices recorded strong growth (up 2.8% in Q1 2017 from a similar 2.8% increase in Q4 2016). The quarterly ...

Banks narrowly avoid parliamentary inquiry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... it," he said. Labor leader Bill Shorten hit at the comments branding Christensen as a "lion in Mackay and a mouse in Canberra." The Bill, which proposed a parliamentary inquiry to examine banking practices including executive pay, will remain in Parliament ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... compared with two (Darwin and Perth) in the September quarter, along with the slowing in price growth in Brisbane and Canberra. The weighted average of residential prices in Australia's eight capital cities jumped by 4.1% in the December quarter, following ...