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Advisers: Keep your clients off A Current Affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... hopes the current climate would not deter them from doing what needs to be done for their clients. "One of the things I worry about at the moment is our industry," Parker said. "Forgive me if I'm out of line here. Putting aside the events of the Royal ...

Hayne admonishes ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
Commissioner Kenneth Hayne criticised ASIC's negotiation strategies and tardiness in remediating misconduct that can take years to resolve and for its inability to prevent future breaches. In his interim report Hayne disapproved of ASIC's preferred ...

New accounting standards put pressure on life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
Australian life insurers are unprepared for two new major accounting standards that will shake up the way profit is reported, a KPMG survey shows. The global survey of 160 life and health insurers, and reinsurers included Australian companies. It gauged ...

Reverse mortgage lenders shortsighted: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
While older Australians are largely benefitting from reverse mortgages in the short term, many have a poor understanding of the risks and the long-term pitfalls, ASIC said. An ASIC review of reverse mortgage lending shows older Australians failed to ...

Parents key to financial literacy legacy: FPA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... in NSW and regional and remote areas feared discussing family financial matters with their children would cause them to worry. However, in an ever-increasingly digital world, the FPA said children with a paid job were more likely to be "digital savvy," ...

Chief economist update: Look ma, inflation ate my wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
"Wage growth in Australia has grown at an annual rate of 2.1%, continuing to stabilise between 2-2.1% over the past four quarters." That's the positive spin from ABS chief economist Bruce Hockman. Not necessarily negative - wages are still growing ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... not yet see the issue as critical but it is concerned that borrowers may not be hedged against the lira's weakness, a worry since foreign currency loans make up about 40% of the Turkish banking sector's assets." Digging deeper, an article on ...

Boutique fund manager eyes second LIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... time. "Global markets have recovered from the weakness early in the calendar year, and appear again to be climbing a wall of worry," Siegling said. "The Australian market has more than recovered, with the All Ordinaries hitting new highs in June 2018. ...

Productivity Commission proposes more changes to financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The financial advice industry is bracing itself for more proposed changes to approved product lists (APLs), remuneration and terminology following the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the state of competition in Australia's financial system. ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Just in time for tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting, ME Bank published the results of the 14th survey of its "Household Financial Comfort Report", taken last June. "The ME Household Financial Comfort Report provides ...