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Trustee Partners crosses the ditch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
Trustee Partners made its first overseas investment, acquiring a New Zealand fiduciary services firm with an offer too strong to ignore. A dominant fiduciary services business in the New Zealand market, Complectus, was bought by Trustee Partners in ...

Research exposes adviser pricing models

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
Financial advisers are only achieving 13.5% in earnings - way below 35% targets, proving there is more confusion and curiosity about adviser pricing models than ever, preliminary results from Elixir Consulting research found. The study examined six ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
No news, it appears, is good news for Japan. The country's stock market and the yen have been heading in the right direction ever since the nuclear threat tit-for-tat between the US and North Korea was taken off the headlines. The Nikkei-225 index has ...

Government fintech agenda spotlights microbanking

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
The Federal Government will open the doors to disruption in the banking sector as part of changes to its revised fintech investment agenda. The 2017-18 Budget includes provisions for newer entrants into the banking industry, including the relaxing the ...

ESG holds key to adviser client retention

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Financial advisers that aren't doing more to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios may be left in the dust by millennials. With the new generation of advice clients driving the ESG conversation, Eaton Vance head of Australia Duncan Hodnett ...

ANZ and ETFS cut ties

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
ANZ ETFS is no more as the rapidly-downsizing bank decided to end its joint venture with ETF Securities, creating a separate business in the process. ANZ ETFS has been rebranded ETF Securities Australia, and eight exchange-traded products originally ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
Whether it's the official tally or the private sector one, the latest purchasing managers' surveys point to slowing expansion in China's manufacturing sector and suggesting a weak start to the second quarter. China's official National Bureau of Statistics ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
With friends like these, who needs Kim Jong-un! Just when the drumbeats of war - the nuclear kind - have recently been withdrawing from the headlines, US president Donald Trump could be starting another, a trade war. Sure, Trump's protectionist' policy ...

Asteron Life rewards healthy lifestyles

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... offers healthy members discounts on shopping, entertainment and travel purchases, and discounts on eligible insurance premiums. TAL Health Sense: Fit for Life provides an automatic discount of 7.5% for clients who fit within a specific BMI range and ...

Unconscionable super cross-selling will continue: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
The Sedgwick Review failed to address some of the "unconscionable" remuneration practices undertaken by banks to cross-sell superannuation products and nothing is being done to curb this, Industry Super Australia says. In response to the independent ...