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ASIC FAR, advice industry contract

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... such as education standards and changes to advice remuneration. For context, Rainmaker data shows in the three years to December 2018 about 7000 new advisers registered. The lion share of these went to smaller, boutique, non-aligned, non-institutional ...

Restructure sees wealth firm lose chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... is listed on the ASX and has experienced a decline in performance this year which saw it go from a price of 1.390 in December to 0.855 today. On the same day Evans Dixon announced Dixon's resignation, the US Masters Residential Property Fund provided ...

ASIC chases licensee over conflicted remuneration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... to The SMSF Club by Positive RealEstate when clients bought a property marketed by the firm through their SMSF between December 2013 and July 2016. ASIC also claims payments were made both directly to The SMSF Club, and on occasion to RM Capital, who ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... (which accounts for around 60% of the economy) contribution to growth halved to 0.1 percentage point from 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter. The slowdown in annual retail sales growth to 2.8% in April from 3.5%, along with the drop in consumer confidence ...

Blue Sky dissolves chief executive role

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... minimum net tangible assets and minimum annual capex. These were to be measured quarterly. Blue Sky met them for the December quarter but on May 9 said it was in breach of the minimum recurring cash EBITDA covenant as at March 31 and it was talking to ...

University to probe reverse mortgages

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... the sector last year said reverse mortgages from authorised deposit-taking institutions totaled only $2.5 billion in December 2017 even though they have grown steadily since the Great Financial Crisis from $1.3 billion in March 2008. The said borrowers ...

Former Futuro adviser charged with theft

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... saying that he was not of good fame or character. In its initial banning, ASIC alleged Smith had stolen $278,042 between December 2008 and July 2016 from the bank account of a deceased estate of which he was the trustee and executor, transferring funds ...

J.P. Morgan wins custody mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... Servicing from the top spot in the first half of 2016, according to Australian Custodial Services Association stats for December half. J.P. Morgan head of sales and relationship management, securities services, Australia and New Zealand, Bryan Gray said ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... 0.2% in the previous three-month period, accelerating the annual rate of expansion to 1.8% from 1.4% in the year to the December 2018 quarter. The unemployment rate dropped to a 45-year low of 3.8% in the first quarter of this year from 3.9% so much ...

Super calculators to align with MoneySmart

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... will see providers use either the default interest rate - as set by MoneySmart - or an alternative interest rate from December 5, as long as they meet the regulator's disclosure requirements. ASIC said the rate of inflation used by MoneySmart includes ...