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Rush of advisers sign up before FASEA deadline

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
The final quarter of 2018 saw more than 4000 financial advisers sign up to ASIC's Financial Adviser Register. According to a Rainmaker analysis of ASIC data, an extra 4037 financial advisers registered as authorised representatives to meet FASEA's ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
The stats are out and it reveals that Australian consumer price inflation has softened... big time. There's no other option for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates soon and twice. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) ...

Former NAB adviser charged

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
A former NAB financial adviser has been charged with two offences following an investigation by ASIC. Max Kiattisak Eung of Tempe, New South Wales was charged with two offences of obtaining financial advantage by deception. It is alleged that between ...

Insurance expert joins $33bn super fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
A $33 billion superannuation fund appointed a group insurance expert as its new head of insurance. Shane Fielding joins Hostplus from insurance broking and consulting firm IFS Insurance Solutions, where he spent nearly 12 years in senior roles. Fielding ...

Colonial First State makes major fee cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
Colonial First State has trimmed its platforms fees, in a move it says will save $68 million in annual fees for 500,000 members. The fee reductions apply across its FirstChoice Wholesale, FirstChoice Employer Super and FirstWrap Plus platforms. They ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
"I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright." This quote from American screenwriter and novelist Millard Kaufman came to mind when I read about China's recent ...

Former Millennium3 adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
A former Millennium3 and Beacon Financial Group adviser was banned by ASIC for failing to act in the best interests of clients by recommending insurance with unaffordable premiums. Gregory Forster received a five year ban for failing to take into account ...

Australia's wealth takes half trillion hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Latest research shows Australia lost close to half a trillion dollars in wealth at the end of 2018. According to Roy Morgan's latest Single Source Survey, the gross personal wealth of Australians (including owner-occupied homes) is currently around ...

Group risk inflows slow at CommInsure, AMP

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
CommInsure and AMP recorded significant declines in group risk premium inflows for the year ending December 2018, latest Strategic Insight data shows. CommInsure recorded the largest decline of 41.5% - almost halving its market share from 10.2% to 5.8% ...

Freedom to divest all operations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Freedom Insurance Group will offload its administration and financial advice businesses, and eventually cease operations. Freedom told the ASX this morning that it agreed in principle to sell its policy administration business to a third party for $5 ...