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Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
In the absence of an increase in the superannuation guarantee, industry representative groups agree Australians will need to put more money in to their super accounts after changes to the Age Pension were announced in the federal budget. Most changes ...

CCMC chief executive appointed as lead ombudsman

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The chief executive of the Code Compliance Monitoring Committee (CCMC) for the Code of Banking Practice, June Smith, will be leaving to expand her role at the Financial Ombudsman Service from July. Smith, who is also currently the general manager of ...

SEC and FINRA issue robo warning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... included the following advice: understand any terms and conditions, consider the tool's limitations and key assumptions, recognise that the automated tool's output directly depends on what information it asks for and which investors provide, be aware ...

CFS reveals retirement income strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... toolkits so they can overlay advice. "We will unbundle these very complex products and create different solutions to really recognise the role of financial advice. We think there's going to be a lot of evolution in this retirement space and we want to ...

Institutions and independents tackling risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... AMP chief executive Craig Meller. "We have consulted with adviser associations to develop these reforms - they also recognise that change is required to build trust and secure long-term benefits for our customers," he added. Speaking about Centrepoint's ...

Advisers Register hits 22k

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... recommended by the Financial System Inquiry, including giving ASIC greater powers to ban bad managers and executives. "We recognise it's not just the frontline advisers who are the people responsible for training or driving the [bad] culture," Kell said. ...

EQT sets up WA estate planning service

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Equity Trustees (EQT) has set up an estate planning service in Western Australia and has appointed a Perth-based estate planning solicitor. Stephanie Smith is the first member of the EQT estate planning team in WA, but the organisation is looking to ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Investors' search for yield in the current low rate, low-return perfect storm has boosted hedge fund inflows. Funds under management for the sector were up 21.7% for the two years to December 2014, according to Rainmaker Data. But a great idea, an obscure ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
The Trowbridge report likely won't become the "blueprint" for the life industry, said former Financial Planning Association of Australia chair Matthew Rowe. In a newspaper column, Rowe explained that this was because of disagreements between key members ...