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FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) proposal to establish a statutory, independent board to oversee advice, saying that there was no need for further regulation, with the mooted board simply "reinventing ...

Cutting edge data tool finds super members most likely to defect

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... fund, and what to do to make them stay. Dr David Black is head of advanced analytics at Empirics. With over 10 years of academic experience in data analysis and statistical models, he and his team believe they have developed a way to revolutionise the ...

AMP Horizons launches online masters with Griffith University

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... Horizons will launch an online masters program with Griffith University, starting from November 2014. The program combines academic training and practical experience and offers candidates a pathway to gain a university qualification and employment opportunities ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The financial advice sector is in need of change and a new Advice Competency Standards Board should lead the transformation, according to the Financial Services Council (FSC). The new body would oversee the development of competency standards, adviser ...

ASIC considers compulsory advice for complex products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
Mandatory financial advice for the sale of complex products is among the measures the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is considering to protect consumers from the risks posed by these investment vehicles. In a newly published ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... aversion to the asset class are not fully understood,A there are some reasonable theories. "There's not any great data or academic work on why our allocation to fixed income is the way it is. I think it's a cultural thing. Some countries, particularly ...

FoFA changes designed to protect big players: opposition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
Labor, the Greens and Industry Super Australia (ISA) strongly opposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation on the grounds that changes "seem designed to protect the profits of larger financial services companies." Both Labor ...

Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
A new round of submissions to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments has seen consumers, academics and industry bodies holding increasingly opposing positions. Most stakeholders focused on the most controversial topics ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... the unions used masculinity to create hierarchies - hence the title of his thesis: 'The aristocracy of muscle.' This academic interest in unionism soon led to a job as a researcher at the Air Traffic Controllers' Union, and then a job at Trades Hall ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... Michael Lewis's new book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. CMCRC CEO Professor Michael Aitken, who has conducted multiple academic studies on HFT, said that there was no evidence presented in the coverage stimulated by the release of the book that securities ...