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YBR to remediate wealth clients

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
Yellow Brick Road is expecting to compensate wealth clients close to $1 million for failing its fee disclosure statements obligations. During the 2019 financial year, the ASX-listed firm identified some advice clients with ongoing fee arrangements may ...

Risk commissions must be retained: MetLife

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
About 60% of advice clients believe the removal of life risk commissions would increase underinsurance in Australia, latest research shows. That is a key finding of MetLife's second annual What Clients Want: 2019 MetLife Adviser/Client Research ...

Members still lack group insurance awareness: MetLife

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
Superannuation members still do not realise they are entitled to life insurance via their super funds despite concerted effort to raise awareness, new research finds. MetLife's latest Insurance inside super report found 73% of Australians are aware ...

Members shift to industry super funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... the possibility of the retail fund sector regaining its market share. Sunsuper outgoing chief executive Scott Hartley said major retail super funds are in the processes of restructuring and are currently "on the operating table" - but can somehow recover. ...

Beware adviser conflicts of interest: Lonsec

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
Managed accounts have the potential to create significant conflicts of interest and conflicted remuneration for advisers. According to Rainmaker data, 29% of the investment platform market in Australia is in managed accounts already and that number ...

Dividend payouts stagnate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... overreliance on financials and resources and lack of dividend growth reiterates the benefits of a global approach to secure income. Major bank Westpac kept its dividend flat for the eighth consecutive quarter. Pointing to Westpac's 3Q19 capital update ...

IFM Investors sets significant emissions targets

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
IFM Investors has set emissions targets across its major assets that aim to reduce more than 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emitted by 2030. In an unprecedented move IFM Investors will now have emissions reduction targets through to 2030 and beyond. The targets ...

Government should intervene in BOLR changes: Opposition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
The NSW shadow minister for finance and small business has asked what the state government is doing for advisers facing financial ruin as a result of AMP's plan to change Buyer of Last Resort terms. Speaking in NSW parliament earlier this week ...

Industry fund awards $150m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
A major industry superannuation fund has awarded a $150 million mandate to a London-based investment manager. Sunsuper selected Affirmative Investment Management (AIM) to manage its first green bond mandate, which aims to achieve financial returns ...

Best online brokers revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... negative rates and inverted yield curves. Peker said: "While it is unclear if negative interest rates will spread to other major markets, it is evident that Australian investors are increasingly concerned with this potential development." "Looking forward ...