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Beware downsizer downsides

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Certain superannuation reforms may seem straightforward yet financial advisers are at risk of coming unstuck if they don't adequately familiarise themselves with the rules. Commenting on the downsizer contribution allowable for over-65s from 1 July ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
"You may have noticed that at yesterday's meeting, the Reserve Bank Board left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, where it has been since August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business ...

Good Super partners for Dump Trump investment option

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Good Super is partnering with a US-based investment adviser to launch a suite of new investment options for members, including "Dump Trump" and "Boycott Adani." OpenInvest will provide advisory services for the new options, which Good Super said will ...

Private wealth platform appoints ASX-listed corporate adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A blockchain-based private wealth platform that created China's first robo-advice solution appointed an ASX-listed corporate advisory firm for its initial coin offering (ICO). Bankorus, which now advises more than 200,000 high-net-worth investors representing ...

Super funds embrace crowdsourced cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
Two of Australia's biggest industry superannuation funds have backed a San Francisco-based crowdsourced cybersecurity startup, taking part in a $33 million capital raise. Hostplus and First State Super have invested in Bugcrowd, a security platform ...

Former Millennium 3 adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
A former Millennium 3 and Lonsdale Financial Group financial adviser was banned for seven years for personally using client funds. Glenn William Connor was banned by ASIC after it found that he had used clients' assets as security for a margin loan ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
"You're going to have protection for the first time in a long time." For better or worse, US President Donald Trump continues to deliver on his campaign promises. Wall Street took Trump's latest promise fulfilment as an excuse to take profits. The Dow ...

NPP to take super by storm: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Research from CBA and KPMG Australia shows the New Payments Platform (NPP) can save the superannuation industry time and millions of dollars each year. Launched in February, the NPP is able to settle transactions in real-time. The time it takes to top ...

Senior RBA figure joins life insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The chief information officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia will join MLC Life in a newly created executive role. Sarv Girn will join MLC Life's leadership team in the new position of chief innovation and transformation officer. Girn will lead the ...

SMSF trustees warned on non-compliant crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Inexperienced self-managed superannuation fund trustees are being warned to do their homework before investing in cryptocurrency as they risk inadvertently breaching crucial compliance regulations. According to Bitcoin Trader partner Warrick Pleash ...