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Industry veteran acquires SMSF administrator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... by an adviser are melded with documentation, legal, technical, processing and reporting requirements. "Strategic admin is far more extensive than just the processing of financials. It encompasses every aspect of the fund, from set up to wind up. We understand ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
"Be careful what you wish for." It's a well-known truism in the current economic cycle that the world's major central banks (the BOE excluded) have been wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' for inflation to climb to their target rates. It appears ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Wells Fargo has become the third major US bank to take action on gender and ethnicity pay gaps. Responding to shareholder pressure the bank released the findings of its most recent pay equity study. It showed women working for Wells Fargo in the US ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... underlying reason for investors' increased appetite for the euro. The euro/US$ exchange rate has appreciated another 3.9% so far this year after rising by 13.9% in 2017. Not completely surprising given the euro area's sharply improving fortune. Fourth ...

Responsible investment here to stay: Experts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... which indicates ethical funds' assets under management grew 26% annually over the 10 years to end 2016. This compares to a far slower 9% annual growth recorded by the broader Australian funds management industry, Vynokur said. Future Super's Mark Woodall ...

Unlisted infrastructure assets hit record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
The global unlisted infrastructure industry is now three times the size of its GFC levels, hitting a record high of US$418 billion in assets under management, latest Preqin research shows. The year to June 2017 saw a record number of deals take place ...

AI threatens financial services workers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... greatly outpacing the accuracy and productivity of humans performing the same task. Nine out of 10 executives using AI are "far from the humanistic robots people see in sci-fi movies," but algorithms capable of learning and constantly improving specific ...

Club Plus creates head of partnerships and growth role

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... Before Club Plus, he was a financial adviser at CBA. O'Loughlin said: "To have been part of the Club Plus Super journey so far has been amazing. The people, the culture and our values are all part of our success. I look forward to leading some new significant ...

Last chance to win a Google Home

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... than 300 Financial Standard readers have responded to the survey, telling us how we can improve our news coverage in 2018. So far, we've determined that the majority of our audience read Financial Standard more than three times a week on average and ...

Mercer increases Japanese footprint via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... nearly 40-year history of strength and success in the provision of strategic investment advice in Japan," Mercer Japan and Far East Zone chief executive Tatsuya Kamoi, said. "The combination of our firms will ensure Japanese investors have access to ...