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FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... the Trowbridge Review on Retail Life Insurance Advice was designed as an independent review following the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's Review of retail life insurance advice (or ASIC REP 413) issued in October 2014. For industry ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and prudential supervisory functions currently performed by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Crucially, in its report the Volcker ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... dependency ratios. Two things happen when a population gets older: 1. Increasing demand for stable income producing securities to fund retirements 2. The proportion of the population engaged in paid work gets smaller. The first point is exacerbated by ...

Small cap fund opens to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... and fundamental analysis that has helped us to consistently outperform the market with the Cromwell Phoenix Property Securities Fund," he added.

Report confirms failed CBA compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... Project Hartnett, which the bank put in place in 2008, and at the Compensation Program that started under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) enforceable undertaking to Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom ...

Van Eck grows distribution team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... brokers. He joins from AMP Capital where, as strategy manager, direct solutions, he designed and implemented listed securities service offerings for AMP licensees. Previously he was a senior investment specialist at Genesys Wealth Advisers and before ...

Industry should help fund ASIC: ANZ

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
ANZ top executives supported the idea that the financial services industry should help fund the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) so it can "fully police industry behaviour." ANZ deputy chief executive officer Graham Hodges told ...

BetaShares launches ASX-listed hedge fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Exchange traded funds (ETF) provider BetaShares listed a hedge fund to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear Hedge Fund will invest its assets into cash and sell equity index futures contracts (ASX ...

Don't blame "churning" on advisers: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... intervention or regulation and blaming all issues on the advice channel, the company said. In light of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) report and the Trowbridge report on risk advice, company executives Michael Harrison and ...

Northern Trust appoints former BlackRock vice president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... Appointed as sales associate is Ann-Marie Garry, who joined Northern Trust after its acquisition of Bank of Ireland Securities Services in 2011. Most recently she was sales associate for Northern Trust's asset servicing business in Melbourne. President ...