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Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
The financial markets' response to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Consumer Price Index report was a big "HO-HUM." With the report released a day before ANZAC Day, the response could have been because market players' thoughts were on something ...

Unions lobby super sector to cut big bank, AMP ties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is calling on industry superannuation funds to review partnerships with the big banks in light of issues exposed at the financial services Royal Commission. In a letter to industry fund chief executives, ACTU secretary ...

Chief economist update: View from the National Farmers' Federation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
I'd like to thank National Farmers' Federation (NFF) general manager, trade and 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 ...

Government targeted for delaying Royal Commission

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... FinaMetrica - part of PlanPlus Global (@paulresnik) April 18, 2018 FinaMetrica director questioned the ongoing viability of the big four's advice businesses. Well what can I say!! Totally shocked and appalled by client testimony #RoyalCommission of blatant ...

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... and the same thing," she said. "I felt that the professional financial adviser and business banker at Westpac, working at a big bank that we had banked with for 16 years - I never thought that I would be lied to. I thought I was being told the truth." ...

Wealth management products make big leaps in digital sales readiness

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
Australians can now apply for 60% of all wealth management products offered by the country's biggest banks from their mobile phones, according to a fintech which helps financial services companies acquire clients. Avoka measured digital sales readiness ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 1 - 3)

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... industry: social media No view on ending adviser commissions: AMP AMP deliberately misled ASIC over ongoing fees April 16: Big four's submissions ANZ, in a last-minute correction to its RC submission, upped the number of its financial advisers who failed ...

Insto licensees still bleeding talent

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... counterparts. As a result of this, the proportion of advisers associated with non-aligned licensees increased to 36%. The big-six advice groups - that is, the big four plus IOOF and AMP - saw their adviser numbers fall by 6% to 9205. Of that cohort ...

New chair, deputy chair for industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
A $13 billion industry superannuation fund is welcoming a new chair and deputy chair. Cate Wood has stepped down as chair of CareSuper, with deputy chair Terence Wetherall promoted to lead the board, having served as an employer director since 2015. ...

Advice not yet a real profession: Kell

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... better developed than the systems that ensured that the client received the advice." Kell said this wasn't just limited to the big four banks and AMP - he also cited Yellow Brick Road, First State Super and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as examples.