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US manager appoints Breakwater to bring funds to Australia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
US-based investment firm Voya Investment Management is entering the Australian institutional market via a distribution partnership with local marketing and advisory firm Breakwater Advisory. Voya IM, formerly known as ING U.S. Investment Management ...

Macquarie rebukes advice, compliance concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... and it added that it is in "regular discussion with ASIC." The response was prompted by an article in the Australian Financial Review quoting several members of the Committee that conducted the inquiry. The senators claimed that Macquarie had refused ...

Banks suspected of pocketing grandfathered commissions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... rather than passing them on to financial advisers, Industry Super Australia (ISA) has warned. ISA has called on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to investigate the issue of what it calls 'orphan commissions'. ISA chief executive ...

Affinia hires regional business consultants

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... Pegg will look after Western Australia and South Australia. They both join Kerrin Glover, in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and Belinda James, in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Docker previously consulted with 55 boutique ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... has won this award for five years running - since ESG Research Australia was formed. So it begs the question, is the Australian ESG broking and analyst community vibrant enough to pose a serious contention against Citi in 2015? More importantly, are ...

IOOF and SFGA union rattles top ranks

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
The increasingly concentrated Australian financial services industry is about to be shaken by a merger that will position an independent provider on the front row for the first time in years. IOOF's bid to acquire SFG Australia (SFGA) shows that the ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... case, therefore, superannuation advertising expenditure represents less than 1% of total expenditure. When in February Financial Standard reported that Industry Super Australia (ISA) spent more than $9 million on advertising in 2013, the story attracted ...

FEATURE: Advisers go solo

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014

ASIC examines risks posed by complex products

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a new report examining the risks posed by complex products and how it will work to regulate them. 'Report 384 Regulating complex products' outlines sets out ASIC's recent and current ...

Majority of Australians remain wary of technology

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The majority of the Australian population has a conservative approach to technology that ranges from those being cautious about spending money on it to those who are straight technophobes. Roy Morgan research into how Australians use and adapt to technology ...