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Statewide Super cans merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
Statewide Super has dumped plans to merge with Tasplan and WA Super, saying it will now pursue other opportunities. As exclusively revealed by Financial Standard in March, the $9.8 billion superannuation fund had signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

ASIC product intervention to commence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
ASIC has initiated consultation on new powers allowing it to intervene where it feels financial products have caused or are likely to cause consumer detriment. Under new product intervention powers, ASIC will be able to take action against financial ...

Self-licensing trend boosts ClearView offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
ClearView's LaVista Licensee Solutions has had a boost to its books thanks to the increase in self-licensed financial advice practices seeking dealer services, such as back-office infrastructure and support. Now NSW-based practice Macaplan Financial ...

Facebook to launch own currency

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... costs. The tech giant said much of the world's adult population - almost half according to the World Bank - don't have an active bank account, with even more dire numbers for women. "The cost of that exclusion is high - approximately 70% of small businesses ...

Best-performing funds with least risk

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... research divided the Australian equities funds into three categories: high performance (tracking error of more than 4%), active core (tracking errors between 1% and 4%) and small companies. In the last two categories the funds deemed the best when ranked ...

Fee discounts harder for active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
High net worth financial advisers may be reluctant to allocate to active ETFs because of the cost benefits on offer with unlisted trusts. Active ETFs account for just $3 billion of Australia's total $47 billion invested through exchange-traded products. ...

ASIC FAR, advice industry contract

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... advisers have dropped off the ASIC Financial Adviser Register in less than six months. As of this month, there are 27,108 active financial advisers in Australia, Rainmaker analysis of latest ASIC FAR data shows. At its height in January 2019, there were ...

Smart beta now mainstream for instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... longer-term track records. Respondents are also viewing smart-beta allocation strategies as more similar to traditional active rather than passive strategies," FTSE Russell said. Why the increase? Smart beta strategies sit between active and passive ...

CBA sells advice dealer group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... According to Rainmaker analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register, as of this morning Count Financial is home to 351 active financial advisers. CBA will continue to support and manage customer remediation matters arising from past issue at Count ...

Millennial super products still just hype

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... in any structured easy-to-access manner although this is slowly improving," Russell writes. "On top of this, while all active open products disclose their PDS very few publish their own annual reports." "This ill-defined governance structure is despite ...