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FASEA exam results spark debate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... advisers passed, but not everyone was happy about that. Director of professional and executive education at Deakin Business School Adrian Raftery took to LinkedIn to write: "Over 90% pass rate... If I was a policymaker the extremely high pass rate would ...

Why do we need royal commissions, Hayne asks

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... country cannot, and should not, be dismissed as some passing fad or fashion," Hayne said in a speech made at Melbourne Law School on July 26 but published only recently. "Instead, we need to grapple closely with what these calls are telling us about ...

Adviser stole $200k from SMSFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... his clients' SMSF accounts to the tune of $204,000. He used the loans to stave off bankruptcy, pay his children's private school fees and gamble. ASIC said the worst of the offences happened between April 2012 and September 2018. At the time, Michael ...

Australian equity markets remain clean: ASIC

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... lacking and need to be tightened." ASIC said the findings complement independent research by Intralinks and Cass Business School released in 2018, which found Australia was the cleanest among a sample of major markets over the last decade. The last three ...

New chief at CBA Group Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... director of CBA Group Super from 2012 to 2016, before spending a year in the US completing the Sloan Fellowship at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Upon his return in 2017, Durbin secured the general manager, strategy position. Doug Carmichael has been ...

Netwealth distribution lead exits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... of financial education platform Banqer for the third year running. The platform aims to boost the financial literacy of school children.

Instos flex influence over investee companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... wield significant influence over capital allocation decisions in companies they invest in, research from Monash Business School finds. About 275 Australian institutional investors, the majority of which work in the super and mutual fund sectors, believe ...

Parametric bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... researcher on risk parity portfolio risk models. He is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Finance at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Parametric chief investment officer Paul Bouchey said: "We are delighted to expand our ...

University to probe reverse mortgages

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
The University of New South Wales' business school is starting a two-year research project on reverse mortgages to find why their uptake has been slow in Australia. Reverse mortgages allow retirees to borrow money against their homes to supplement ...

Industry super fund appoints new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
An $8.6 billion industry superannuation fund will welcome a new chair as the incumbent completes the 12-year term. The Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund announced David Hutton will take the post from July 1, replacing Richard Haddock. ...