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Advice business offers enforceable undertaking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
Financial Index Australia entered into an enforceable undertaking with ASIC after an investigation found advisers had moved clients into more expensive, FIA-branded products without reason. ASIC identified a number of issues within FIA's financial advice ...

AIA grows health insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
AIA is expanding its Vitality health insurance offering with the launch of a new brand. MyOwn health insurance offers hospital and extras cover ranging from the basic package to the top level of cover for families. Actively engaged members may also ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
"It is worth remembering that it can take 18 to 24 months for a monetary policy action to have its full effect on inflation. This means that central banks must target future inflation by anticipating future deviations from target." These were the words ...

Bennelong launches new fund, hires analyst

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... clients. "In some respects, the new microcap fund will also support our existing funds. For example, it is likely to mean we discover up and coming opportunities, some of which may grow their way into a size suitable for investment in the larger-cap ...

Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
Australian superannuation funds could take the country's agriculture sector to the next level in global competitiveness but they will need help in doing so. Industry Super Australia has published a discussion paper that responds to calls for the $2 ...

Advice industry must not rest on laurels: Diamantidis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... 'teach them to fish' instead of always providing all the answers. "We need to inspire them to want more and do more, to discover the world and themselves. Then we need to team them how to fish - how to discover the answers themselves. Once we've done ...

Insurance giant partners to combine life and health

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
One of Australia's largest life insurers is entering a joint venture with a not-for-profit health fund and a financial services provider to launch a new combined life and health insurance brand. AIA Australia is joining forces with health fund GMHBA ...

ASIC permanently bans Queensland adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
The Australian and Securities and Investment Commission permanently banned a former Anne Street Partners financial planner for engaging in deliberate acts of dishonesty. Daniel Peter Logan, formerly of Brisbane, failed to comply with financial services ...

Netwealth backing financial literacy in schools

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... manage their current and future wealth. We seek to enable, educate and inspire people to see wealth differently and to discover a brighter future," Heine said. The program is already used by about 10% of New Zealand's Year 1-7 students, with 28 schools ...

Instos unclear about ETF value

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Australian institutional investors are in the middle of an education process when it comes to figuring out what an ETF is, how it works, and how it will benefit them, iShares head of fixed income strategy Matthew Tucker said. Retail and wealth investors ...