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Frontier names head of real assets arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... billion under advice. Demir will work closely with property specialist Jennifer Johnstone-Kaiser, who joined Frontier in January this year. She has carved out a global career in investment banking and private equity, specialising in infrastructure over ...

Chief economist update: Weak wages a puzzle, could become a problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... - from 2.8% in the previous month. The annual growth in the core inflation measure sped up to 2.3% - the highest since January 2017 - from 2.2% in the previous month. Although the consumer price index isn't the Fed's favoured measure of inflation ...

FASEA issues adviser exam proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... scaled to calculate the overall scaled pass mark. Existing financial advisers will be required to pass the exam before 1 January 2021, while new or returning advisers will have to do so from January 2019 after completion of a tertiary degree and before ...

CBA should have done more: Federal Court

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... reached between the two in May. The bank entered into the EU after Federal Court proceedings were launched by ASIC in January, with the corporate regulator alleging three instances of unconscionable trading and the creation of an artificial price. This ...

Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... acquired a majority stake in Pepper Group in October 2017, Blackstone acquired a majority stake in La Trobe Financial in January 2018 and Cerberus acquired Bluestone Holdings Australia in February 2018, according to Moody's. In 2017, RMBS issuance ...

Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... funeral insurance products on 19 March 2018. This was on the basis that the Life Insurance Framework that came to effect 1 January 2018 and it was not "commercially viable" for the partnership to continue, he said. "Well, as set out in my response in ...

Royal Commission cracks down on life insurance phone sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... which used unfair and high pressure sales tactics when selling life insurance direct to consumers over the phone between 1 January 2014 and 30 June 2017. Of 32,000 life insurance policies sold, 1166 were to consumers residing in areas with high indigenous ...

Trade-off needed on existing adviser standards: Fox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... in 2017, a perception was borne that advisers had eight years to meet the new requirements with a final deadline of 1 January 2024. Fox notes the real deadline is in fact 31 December 2023, and FASEA's final decision on FASEA degree equivalency won't ...

Franklin Templeton appoints two distribution heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... including K2 Advisors. Teh and Walsh will report to FTI Australian managing director Matthew Harrison, who joined the firm in January. "Both Amy and Felicity bring a great deal of experience to our team and will play a crucial role in not only working ...

AFA seeks overhaul of proposed education standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... extension of the deadline to achieve degree equivalence until 31 December 2024, with the AFA saying the original deadline of 1 January 2024 is impractical. Likewise, extending the deadline for existing advisers to complete the registration exam from ...