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Wage subsidy to rescue advice industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... subsidy to incentivise advice practices to take hire graduates. In its pre-Budget submission, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) recommended the government introduce a $10,000 wage subsidy for employing professional year students, citing the ...

Banks return $1.2bn for bad advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... receive those services. Additionally, the reviews looked into how effectively the institutions supervised their financial advisers to identify and deal with non-compliant advice. NAB leads the ranks in compensation for fee for no service misconduct paying ...

Local managed funds fee revenues shrinks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... "Investment managers are under huge market pressure to reduce their fees, and investors, together with their financial advisers, should always check they are getting the best fee deal they can," Dunnin said. "Investors should not be seduced into thinking ...

CBA slashes profits, boosts dividends

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... the decline to retail banking services, which saw income fall by 71% to $15 million as a result of winding down aligned advisers. The New Zealand business, which is classified under the funds management category, saw income reduce by 4% to $68 million ...

Northern Trust hires from Dimensional

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... Trust's asset management business has added a senior institutional distribution manager, hiring from Dimensional Fund Advisers. Thakshi Wijesundara will be based in Melbourne. She reports to Northern Trust Asset Management's head of Australia ...

ASIC imposes licence conditions on Poynter Hargraves

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... supervise their representatives," the regulator said. "AFS licensees should conduct sufficient periodic audits of all their advisers and use suitably qualified staff to conduct these audits."

NEOS, ClearView lead satisfaction

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
New research from Investment Trends has measured how satisfied risk advisers are with their main life insurers across key service areas, NEOS Life and ClearView on top. It found that NEOS overtook ClearView to become the insurer advisers are most satisfied ...

Wilsons starts Canberra office

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
The 125-year-old advice and stockbroking firm is establishing a Canberra office, as two financial advisers based in the region join from Elston. Tim Anderson and Richard Taylor have joined Wilsons' private wealth advisory team, which is headed by Paul ...

Macquarie makes telecoms bid

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... board indicated the offer was tempting by providing MIRA due diligence access. "After consideration by the board and its advisers, the board has concluded that it is in the best interests of Vocus shareholders to explore the potential for a transaction ...

Evergreen launches stress testing tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... stress-testing tool within GreenVUE, Evergreen's proprietary portfolio analytics system. GreenVUE will allow financial advisers to visualise their investment portfolio's risk and return characteristics, given multi-factor analysis of portfolios in a ...