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Productivity Commission addresses superannuation lottery

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... The report likens aspects of Australia's $2.6 trillion super system to a lottery. Default super versus choice The 571-page draft report pits default super versus choice and the Commission has developed a model which it believes supports a simple ...

Poor SoAs hindering advice process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
There is growing concern that a lack of clear and consistent templates for Statement of Advice documents is potentially causing financial advice clients to sign off on advice they don't actually understand. Paraplanning services provider YTML has seen ...

Australian asset owners support first stewardship code

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... asset owner stewardship code. AustralianSuper and HESTA have committed to the Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code, a 14-page document developed by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI launched the code at its annual conference ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... is what Australia's major financial services associations will be hoping for. Financial Planning Association (FPA) In a 45-page pre-budget submission, the association representing 13,000 financial planners sets out 19 recommendations to the Federal Government. ...

InvestSMART to launch active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... important active managers can bring an "Amazon-esque" experience to financial services. Instead of having wet signatures and 200-page product disclosure statements, "You can just buy our funds on the exchange through a broker account." "Magellan did ...

Fees for no service an old issue: AMP

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... Utz report into the issue has been overstated; and its misleading representations to ASIC have also been overstated. The 28-page response also includes AMP unreservedly apologising for its financial advice failings in respect of service delivery to customers ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... deadline, and to seek connection between the forecast and policy actions." This is exactly what I've been ranting about on this page ever since BOJ "exit strategy speculations" first visited on investors' consciousness. Here's one I prepared earlier ...

Fidelity to launch active ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... important active managers can bring an "Amazon-esque" experience to financial services. Instead of having wet signatures and 200-page product disclosure statements, "You can just buy our funds on the exchange through a broker account." "Magellan did ...

Chief economist update: View from the National Farmers' Federation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... economics, Scott Kompo-Harms for taking time to respond to my piece on the Australian agriculture industry published on this page yesterday titled, " Malcolm puts agriculture in the middle ". We had a telephone conversation where Scott told me that while ...

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... which McDowall recalls: "I said we weren't looking for $2 million but I felt it was possible and we were all on the same page." The couple was advised to establish a self-managed superannuation fund and to sell their family home. Having felt the earlier ...