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FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
David Heather has been waiting for managed accounts to take off since 2001. The managedaccounts.com.au chief executive has watched interest grow across the investment spectrum, from large institutions to retail accumulators, but he's never seen any ...

Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum 2015 registrations open

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Registrations are now open for the Financial Standard Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum 2015, which will be held in Sydney on October 8. The one-day professional learning program is designed to inform advisers and other attendees about how managed ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
"I am a man who will fight for your honour I'll be the hero that you're dreaming of... Just like a knight in shining armour, from a long time ago Just in time I will save the day..." - Peter Cetera, "Glory Of Love Lyrics" For a little while there, I ...

Centrepoint's wealth business up 10pc

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Centrepoint Alliance's wealth business recorded an underlying pre-tax profit of $7.1 million for the last financial year, up 10% on the year prior. Announcing its full-year results to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday, Centrepoint also ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
Ask not when the Fed would start raising interest rates but whether the Fed should re-launch QE. Let's take a trip back to 29 July, Virginia - the day the Fed released its policy statement at the conclusion of its 28-29 July FOMC meeting - it was sliced ...

AMP Capital takes majority stake in Angel Trains

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
AMP Capital has taken a majority stake in UK train leasing company Angel Trains. After purchasing additional equity in the company from Arcus Infrastructure Partners' European Infrastructure Fund 1, AMP Capital's ownership of Angel Trains has increased ...

Westpac insurance adviser gets permanent ban

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
A Westpac financial planner has been permanently banned for submitting false insurance policy proposals to the bank to obtain benefits for himself. Victoria-based adviser Martin Hodgetts submitted nine false insurance policies between May and September ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Look ma, China's central bank must have read the piece I've written yesterday morning calling their 1.9% devaluation a mere speck. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) topped it up with another devaluation of 1.6% by the afternoon for a grand total of ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Too many Australians don't understand the purpose of life insurance and see the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Centrelink as effective substitutes, suggests research commissioned by Zurich and the Financial Planning Association of Australia ...

Macquarie adviser forged signatures, lied to clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
An authorised representative of Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) has been banned for six years after the regulator found that he forged client documents. Shawn Hickman engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on his clients' accounts between November ...